Common names include chocolate pudding fruit, black soapapple and (in Spanish) zapote prieto.

The genus Diospyros has numerous other fruit bearing tree species in addition to the persimmons and black sapote.

This term, translated from Greek, can be variously rendered as "God's pear", "Wheat of Zeus" and "Jove's fire".

[citation needed] Black sapote fruit are tomato-like and measure 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) in diameter, with an inedible skin that turns from olive to a deep yellow-green when ripe and a pulp which is white and inedible when unripe but assumes a flavor, color and texture often likened to chocolate pudding when ripe.

[citation needed] Black sapote trees are normally found below 600 meters, but are not particular about soil, and can tolerate light frosts.

[5][8][9][10] 'Mossman' has very large, round fruit of medium flavor with high pulp content and few seeds, and is capable of producing up to 450 kg per tree.

[9][10] 'Superb' is a selection from North Queensland that bears large quantities of superb quality, small fruits that may be completely seedless if not cross pollinated.

It produces 70 kg or more of very sweet, small to medium-sized fruit of very good quality with 5-10 seeds, beginning 6–8 weeks earlier than other varieties (November in Florida).