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Diospyros digyna

Tree

HomeTreeDiospyros digyna

Dry or wet mixed forest usually around sea level.

Family: Ebenaceae
Height: 15 m / 50 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Black Sapote, Chocolate Pudding Tree Diospyros digyna native habitat is Dry or wet mixed forest usually around sea level.

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw or cooked. Bitter and astringent when unripe, it should not be eaten until it is fully ripe and soft. Soft, rich, dark chocolate brown in colour and somewhat sweet. The black mushy flesh is repulsive in appearance, reminding one of dirty axle grease. Rather bland, the fruit is best mashed with a little orange, lemon or lime juice and chilled before serving. The immature fruit can be boiled and used as a vegetable. The fruit is rather boring on its own, but delicious when used in smoothies, jams etc. The dark olive-green fruit is a flattened globose to slightly lobed berry, 5 - 15cm in diameter. The fruit turns a duller colour when ripe and the persistent calyx at the base, which is pressed against the developing fruit, becomes reflexed. At this stage the fruits are still firm. They soften 3 - 14 days after harvesting, individual fruits ripening suddenly and unpredictably within 24 hours.

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