Annona reticulata is a semievergreen and small deciduous tree from the plant family annonaceae 2. Guyabano tree, or soursop in english scientific name. Custard apple is a compound fruit that measures anything between 3 14 inches and 6 12 inches 8 cm and 16 cm across. Annona is a platform that brings together your local needs with your global network. Pdf manejo integrado del cultivo del anon annona squamosa l. The potential use of annona annonaceae by products as a. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
A sweet fruit, custard apple botanical name annona reticulata is grown in many places throughout the world. Annona reticulata an overview sciencedirect topics. Annona reticulata, commonly called sugar apple, custard apple or bullocks heart, is a small, evergreen to deciduous, tropical tree that is native to the west indies. The atemoya and the cherimoya produce fruit superior in quality to other annona species. Fruit is softball sized with orangeyellow flesh, smaller and rounder than the soursop. Annona squamosa is a small, wellbranched tree or shrub from the family annonaceae that bears edible fruits called sugarapples or sweetsops.
This can usually be done by pouring a small amount of nearly boiling water on the seeds being careful not to cook them. Nissen, in encyclopedia of food sciences and nutrition second edition, 2003. In the other hand, pearl grass hedyotis corymbosa l. Littleknown plants of the andes with promise for worldwide cultivation. Jul 10, 2015 annona muricata is a member of the annonaceae family and is a fruit tree with a long history of traditional use. Page 1 pharmacognostical and phytochemical studies on the leaf and stem bark of annona reticulata linn. Seeds were separated from the fruit pulp, cleaned manually and dried at room temperature. Annona reticulata, custard apple chirimoya cuba, corazon. Annona montana, mountain soursop, wild custard apple. Physiological and physicochemical characterization of the. Feuilles oblongues, obovales lancaolaes ou suborbiculaires long.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute andor modify this document under the terms of the gnu free documentation license, version 1. It is well known for its fruit, commonly called custard apple having flavor sweet and pleasant, which is a very common name, shared with fruits of various other species belonging to same genus. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it. The fruit of the sugar apple are highly seeded and are not. This fruit may be uniformly heartshaped, irregular or even lopsided.
The annona is called custard apple 1989, national research. Mission to improve global supply chains for the benefit of smallscale producers annona history hq washington, dc africa operations nairobi, kenya. In this study, soursop and pearl grass combined to obtain. Data source and references for annona annona from the usda plants database.
About 900 species are neotropical, 450 are afrotropical, and the other species indomalayan. The seed of many species in this genus has a hard seedcoat and may benefit from scarification before sowing in order to speed up germination. The determination results was explained that plants used in the study are annona muricata linn. Categorization of germination and dormancy of cherimoya annona cherimola l. Cherimoya annona cherimola and soursop annona muricata seed germination and dormancy were studied in order to. This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the english wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article.
The annona is called custard apple 1989, national research council u. It is the second largest genus in the family after guatteria, containing approximately 166 species of mostly neotropical and afrotropical trees and shrubs. American journal of research communication kedari, et al. Early on, it was brought to the mainland where it is now cultivated from southern mexico through central america to peru and brazil. The fruit resembles soursop but with less sugar and has distinctive pineapple flavor.
May 07, 2020 custard apple tree of the genus annona and their fruit 1842, lady maria callcott, a scripture herbal, page 21. The following 109 files are in this category, out of 109 total. Benefits and nutrition of custard apple annona reticulata. A downloadable pdf document of a book in prepublication awaiting illustration. An excellent, if rather terse, guide to the traditional medicinal uses of the plants of the region a concentrated extract of the see is employed to remedy dysentery and diarrhoea.
Annona muricata is a member of the annonaceae family and is a fruit tree with a long history of traditional use. Soursop annona muricata has numerous traditional medicinal uses in south american and the caribbean, and it has become a popular nutritional medicinal supplement. Paleoethnobotanical studies have dated annona exploitation. Corossol des varietes cultivars issues dannona muricata l. Annona from taino annon is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpawsugar apple family, annonaceae. O coracaodeboi annona reticulata, tambem conhecido como ata, condessa, jacama, frutadoconde, milolo, pinha, araticum, araticumdecheiro 1 e frutadacondessa, e uma especie da familia annonaceae. Data source and references for annona annona usda plants. Advisory committee on technology innovation, lost crops of the incas. The determination made to avoid mistakes of the plants to be used in the study. Similar to the soursop, usually with highly scented but mediocre flavored flesh. Composition, nutritional value, medicinal uses, and toxicology chapter pdf available january 2010 with 39,254 reads. Ars germplasm resources information network anre integrated taxonomic information system anre. It tolerates a tropical lowland climate better than its relatives annona reticulata and annona cherimola whose fruits often share the same name helping make it the most widely cultivated of these species. The fruit of some species, such as the bullocks hearts a.