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Re:A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name by ppezaris on Sunday March 28, 2021 @11:34PM (#26617454)
We have a couple of black sapote trees in our yard; sounds similar.
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Re:A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name by thitcanh on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:26AM (#26617695)
Ahh I love black sapote too. Indeed you eat it when it feels rotten, except black sapote isn’t particularly sweet, at least the very few ones I tried in Oaxaca.

Did you know… black sapotes are of the same family of persimmons? If you focus, you’ll notice that they taste very similar.

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Re:A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name by pvaldes on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:13AM (#26634183)
> of the same family

Is an american cousin, Persimmons are Diospyros kaki and Black sapotes are Diospyros nigra, so technically is a black persimmon. In US there are other obscure native persimmons also like Diospyros texana

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