Common names (English):

Custard apple, Bullock's heart

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Native of Central America.

Use: Edible

Description:

Trees, to 8 m high. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers green, several from internodal cymes. Sepals 3. Petals 6 (3 + 3); inner ones reduced. Stamens many. Carpels many. Fruit an aggregate of berry, spherical or ovoid.