Editing Manilkara chicle

{{Short description|Species of tree}}
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 | image = Sapodilla big.jpg
 | genus = Manilkara
 | species = chicle
 | authority = ([[Henri François Pittier|Pittier]]) [[Charles Louis Gilly|Gilly]]<ref name=ipni1>''Trop. Woods'' no. 73: 14. 1943 {{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=C2CDD17854C13F81AEE2ABA353BCB0D6?id=152591-2 |title=Plant Name Details for ''Manilkara chicle'' |quote=nomenclatural synonym: Sapotaceae ''Achras chicle''|work=[[International Plant Names Index|IPNI]] |accessdate=December 25, 2009}}</ref>
 | synonyms = ''Achras chicle'' <small>Pittier</small><br>''Mopania chicle'' <small>(Pittier) [[Cyrus Longworth Lundell|Lundell]]</small>
: list sources :<ref name=ipni1/><ref name=ipni2>''J. Wash. Acad. Sci.'' 9: 436. 1919 {{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=2415-2 |title=Plant Name Details for ''Achras chicle'' |quote=Distribution: Vega Grande, near Los Amates, Izabal (Guatemala, Central America, Southern America)<br>nomenclatural synonym: Sapotaceae ''Mopania chicle''<br>nomenclatural synonym: Sapotaceae ''Manilkara chicle'' |work=IPNI |accessdate=December 25, 2009}}</ref><ref name=ipni3>''Wrightia'' 6: 19. 1978 {{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=164209-2 |title=Plant Name Details for ''Mopania chicle'' |quote=nomenclatural synonym: Sapotaceae ''Achras chicle'' |work=IPNI |accessdate=December 25, 2009}}</ref>
}}

'''''Manilkara chicle''''' is a tropical [[evergreen]] [[tree]] native to [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]].  The tree ranges from [[Veracruz]] in [[Mexico]] south to [[Department of Atlántico|Atlántico]] in [[Colombia]].<ref>{{GRIN | accessdate = 14 January 2018}}</ref> It yields a [[natural gum]] known as [[chicle]], traditionally used in making [[chewing gum]] and other products.

==See also==
* ''[[Manilkara zapota]]'', the sapodilla tree

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[[Category:Manilkara|chicle]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1919]]
[[Category:Trees of Northern America]]