Pouteria caimitoRadlk.

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WFO wfo-0000281599 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pouteria caimito, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. a Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-07 / obs. 179265817
Pouteria caimito, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. b Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179265853
Pouteria caimito, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. c Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179265832
Pouteria caimito, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. d Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62643807
Pouteria caimito, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. e Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62643818

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Pouteria caimito is native: Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela BoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Pouteria caimito, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 25 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Achras caimito Ruiz & Pav.
  • Achras guapeda Casar.
  • Caleatia caimito Mart. ex Steud.
  • Guapeba caimito Pierre
  • Guapeba lasiocarpa (Mart.) Pierre
  • Guapeba laurifolia Gomes
  • Guapebeira brasiliensis Steud.
  • Guapebeira laurifolia Gomes
  • Labatia caimito Mart.
  • Labatia lasiocarpa Mart.
  • Labatia reticulata Mart.
  • Lucuma caimito Roem. & Schult.
  • Lucuma lasiocarpa (Mart.) A.DC.
  • Lucuma laurifolia (Gomes) A.DC.
  • Lucuma laurifolia var. reticulata (Mart.) A.DC.
  • Lucuma temare Kunth
  • Lucuma ternata Kunth
  • Pouteria caimito var. laurifolia (Gomes) Baehni
  • Pouteria cainito var. laurifolia (Gomes) Baehni
  • Pouteria cainito var. typica Baehni
  • Pouteria lasiocarpa (Mart.) Radlk.
  • Pouteria laurifolia (Gomes) Radlk.
  • Pouteria leucophaea Baehni
  • Pouteria temare (Kunth) Aubrév.

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.