Human heart fruit (scientific name: Manilkara zapota? (Linn.) van Royen), tree, 15-20 meters high, branchlets tea-brown, with obvious leaf scars. Leaves alternate, densely clustered at branch tips, leathery, oblong or ovate-elliptic; petiole 1.5-3 cm long. Flowers 1-2 in apical leaf axils of branches; pedicel 2-2.5 cm, densely yellow-brown or rust-colored tomentose; outer whorl of calyx with 3 lobes oblong-ovate; corolla white, apex irregularly denticulate; fertile stamens inserted in throat of corolla tube, filaments filiform, anthers oblong-ovate; staminodes petaloid; ovary conical; style terete, base slightly thickened. Berry fusiform, ovate, or globose; seeds compressed. Flowering and fruiting April-September. [1]?

Native to tropical America, cultivated in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan (Xishuangbanna), China. Human heart fruit is a kind of tropical fruit in the family of Sapotaceae, because the fruit of the human heart fruit looks like the human heart, so it is named as the human heart fruit. It is also called "Wu Feng Persimmon" because the fruit looks like a persimmon. [2]? It is a fruit with high nutritional value. The fruit is edible, sweet and savory; the latex of the trunk is raw material for chewing gum; the seed kernel contains 20% oil; the bark contains phytochemicals, which can cure fever.