It should not be confused with the mammee apple (Mammea americana).

Groves of mammee apple (Mammea americana) and heliconia trees are also recorded along the entrance path of the park.

Other recorded foodplants include Clusia rosea, Garcinia carnbogia and Mammea americana.

Mammea americana is often confused with the unrelated but similar looking mamey sapote tree (Pouteria sapota), whose fruit is also called mammee or mamey.

It is known locally as Mamey, a common name that is also used for the unrelated species Pouteria sapota from Cuba and the fruit tree Mammea americana from Central and South America.

One species (Mammea americana) is found in tropical America and the West Indies, one species in tropical Africa, 20 in Madagascar and 27 in Indomalaya and the Pacific region.

Mammea americana, commonly known as mammee, mammee apple, mamey, mamey apple, Santo Domingo apricot, tropical apricot, or South American apricot, is an evergreen tree of the family Calophyllaceae, whose fruit is edible.