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Spondias or Makok is a genus of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s of the family Anacardiaceae
Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae is a Family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an Irritation. Its 82 genera include several of economic importance....
. The genus consists of 17 described species, 7 of which are native to the Neotropics and about 10 are native to tropical Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
. They are commonly named hog plums, Spanish plums and in some cases golden apples for their brightly-colored fruit which resemble an apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
 or large plum
Plum

A plum or gage is a drupe tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitary , the flowers being grouped 1-5 together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side, and a smooth stone....
 at a casual glance. They are only distantly related to apple and plum trees however.






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Spondias or Makok is a genus of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s of the family Anacardiaceae
Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae is a Family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an Irritation. Its 82 genera include several of economic importance....
. The genus consists of 17 described species, 7 of which are native to the Neotropics and about 10 are native to tropical Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
. They are commonly named hog plums, Spanish plums and in some cases golden apples for their brightly-colored fruit which resemble an apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
 or large plum
Plum

A plum or gage is a drupe tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitary , the flowers being grouped 1-5 together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side, and a smooth stone....
 at a casual glance. They are only distantly related to apple and plum trees however. A more unequivocal common name is mombins.

Spondias Dulcis3
They are deciduous
Deciduous

Deciduous means falling off at maturity or tending to fall off and is typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally and to the shedding of other plant structures such as petals after flowering or fruit when ripe....
 or semi-evergreen
Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant having leaf all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage for part of the year....
 tree
TREE

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s growing to 25 m tall. The leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
 are spirally arranged, pinnate, rarely bipinnate or simple. The fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
 is a drupe
Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovary....
 similar to a small mango
Mango

Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae....
 (in the related genus Mangifera), 4-10 cm long, ripening yellow or orange. It has a single seed
Seed

A seed is a small Plant embryogenesis plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some Food storage. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant....
.

About 10 species of Spondias bear edible fruits and have been domesticated for fruit production.

The name of the city of Bangkok
Bangkok

The city of Bangkok is the Capital , largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai language as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or Krung Thep for short, it was a small trading post at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River during the Ayutthaya Kingdom and came to the forefront of Thailand when it was given the status as the...
, Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
 is derived from makok, the Thai
Thai language

Thai , is the national language and official language language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group....
 name for the fruit of Spondias dulcis.


Selected species
  • Spondias dulcis – Tahitian Apple
    Tahitian apple

    Spondias dulcis or the Tahitian apple, also known as the Otaheite apple, , or just Golden apple, is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit....
    , Pommecythere (Trinidad & Tobago)
  • Spondias haplophylla
  • Spondias indica
  • Spondias lakonensis
  • Spondias mombin
    Spondias mombin

    Spondias mombin is a tree, a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including the West Indies....
     – Yellow Mombin, Gully Plum, Ashanti Plum, "Java plum
    Java plum

    Java plum can refer to:*Syzgium cumini*Spondias mombin...
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  • Spondias pinnata
  • Spondias purpurea – Jocote
    Jocote

    Jocote is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. Other common names include Red Mombin, Purple Mombin, Ciruela, or Hog Plum....
    , Purple Mombin, Red Mombin, Ciruela
  • Spondias radlkoferi
  • Spondias tuberosa – Umbú, Imbu, Brazil Plum
  • Spondias venulosa


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