Pouteria campechiana
(Kunth) Baehni · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Pouteria campechiana's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation17 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 576 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Canistel Pouteria campechiana (commonly known as the cupcake fruit or canistel) is an evergreen tree native to, and cultivated in, southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is cultivated in other countries, such as India, Costa Rica, Brazil, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and the Philippines. The edible part of the tree is its fruit, which is colloquially known as an egg fruit. The canistel grows up to 10 m high, and produces orange-yellow fruit, also called yellow sapote, up to 7 cm long, which are edible raw. Canistel flesh is sweet, with a texture often compared to that of a hard-boiled egg yolk, hence its colloquial name "eggfruit". It is closely related to the lucuma, mamey sapote, and abiu.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology9
Life cycle & reproduction4
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry8
Compounds documented for Pouteria campechiana across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Documented compounds17 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARBOHYDRATES | 926,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| WATER | 606,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| PROTEIN | 58,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| ASH | 23,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| FAT | 20,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| KILOCALORIES | 3,600 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| LYSINE | 2,130 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 1,475 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| PHOSPHORUS | 1,040 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| CALCIUM | 895 ppm | DukesPhytochem |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Pouteria campechiana has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Pouteria campechiana carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type1 576 records
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions52 of 85 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Durango, MX | 224 |
| Saint Louis, US | 220 |
| Mexico City, MX | 199 |
| Mérida, MX | 83 |
| Kew, GB | 66 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 63 |
| Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record | 49 |
| Tapachula, MX | 43 |
| Mexico City, MX | 38 |
| Austin, US | 33 |
| Chapingo, MX | 32 |
| Mexico City, MX | 30 |
| Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV | 17 |
| MEXUlocation not on record | 13 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 12 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 12 |
| Chicago, US | 11 |
| Berlin, DE | 11 |
| Bronx, US | 11 |
| San José, CR | 11 |
| Riverside, US | 10 |
| San Francisco de Campeche, MX | 9 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 9 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 8 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| Mérida, MX | 7 |
| Juriquilla, MX | 7 |
| Durham, US | 6 |
| Davis, US | 6 |
| Guatemala City, GT | 5 |
| South Kensington, GB | 5 |
| Miami, US | 5 |
| Canberra, AU | 5 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 4 |
| Tampa, US | 4 |
| Auckland, NZ | 4 |
| Mexico City, MX | 4 |
| Minister of Sustainable Development, Climate Change & Solid Waste Managementlocation not on record | 4 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 4 |
| San Francisco, US | 3 |
| León, NI | 3 |
| Honolulu, US | 3 |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Xalapalocation not on record | 3 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabascolocation not on record | 3 |
| Sociedad para el Estudio de los Recursos Bióticos de Oaxaca, A. C.location not on record | 3 |
| Nishihara, JP | 3 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 3 |
| Cincinnati, US | 2 |
| Toluca, MX | 2 |
| Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biologialocation not on record | 2 |
| Montecillo, Texcoco, MX | 2 |
| Elocation not on record | 2 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 2 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 2 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Calabar, NG | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Zhejianglocation not on record | 1 |
| NO DISPONIBLElocation not on record | 1 |
| HEMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Giardini Botanici Hanburylocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| Quito, EC | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| BMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ulocation not on record | 1 |
| Monastir, TN | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| Kunming, CN | 1 |
| Palmerston, AU | 1 |
| Gump Stationlocation not on record | 1 |
| Brisbane, AU | 1 |
| Guasave, MX | 1 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 1 |
| Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad del Ecuadorlocation not on record | 1 |
| QCNElocation not on record | 1 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Herbario de la Universidad Tecnológica Indoaméricalocation not on record | 1 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 1 |
| Managua, NI | 1 |
| Guatemala, GT | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Pouteria campechiana was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.