• Scientific Name: Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni
• Ref: Candollea 9:398. 1942
• Synonyms: Lucuma campechiana Kunth; Lucuma nervosa A.DC.
• English Common Name: egg fruit, canistel
• Chinese Common Name: 蛋黄果 dànhuáng∙guǒ
• Japanese Common Name: カニステル kanisuteru
• Family: Sapotaceae
• Genus: Pouteria
• Distribution: Hardwood hammocks; 0-5 m; introduced; Fla.; Mexico; West Indies (Cuba); Central America.
• Photo: 02/10/2018,Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,Yunnan;
  06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong

Trees to 8 m. Leaves: petiole 10-25(-45) mm, finely hairy; blade elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 80-250(-330) × 30-80(-150) mm, margins revolute. Pedicels 6-12 mm, densely hairy. Flowers: sepals ovate to suborbiculate, 4.5-11 mm; petals 8-12 mm, tube 5-6(-8) mm; staminodes petaloid, 2-4 mm. Berries 25-70 mm, apex short-rostrate, surface smooth. Seeds 1-6, 20-40 mm. (FNA Vol. 8)

2009.06.21@SCBG