Annona squamosa L.
Annona squamosa L.
Family: Annonaceae
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.