Common names (English):

Sugar apple, Custard apple, Sweet sop

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Native of Central America.

Use: Edible

Description:

Trees, to 6 m high. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong. Flowers axillary, solitary or a few together. Sepals 3. Petals 6 (3+3), greenish-white or yellow. Stamens many. Carpels many. Fruit an aggregate of berry, greenish, pulp white; seeds many, black.

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