Zapotes is the plural of zapote. Orange. Zapote is the fruit of the tree of the same name. There is wide variety of zapotes. Some species belong to the Sapotaceae and are of the genus Pouteria. It tells zapotes other fruits of trees of the Ebenaceae family and the genus Dyospiros. In Colombia we say zapote fruit and the tree that produced it to the arboreal species scientific name Matisia cordata in the family Malvaceae, which we also call Chupachupa.
