Taxon:
Annona muricata L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:536. 1753
Verified:
07/11/1997
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
soursop – Dutch
zuurzak – French
anone – cachiman épineux – corossol épineux – grand corossol – German
Sauersack – Stachelannone – Portuguese
graviola – Portuguese (Brazil)
araticum-grande – araticum-manso – coração-de-rainha – jaca-de-pobre – jaca-do-Pará – Spanish
anona – guanábana – guanábano – Swedish
taggannona –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | | Africa | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | s. |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Cambodia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Papuasia | Papua New Guinea | | |
2 | Cultivated | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | n. |
2 | Cultivated | Northern America | | Mexico | | |
2 | Cultivated | Pacific | South-Central Pacific | French Polynesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | | South America | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Caribbean | West Indies | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Central America | Central America | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. in tropics |
6 | Other | | | | | probable origin West Indies |
Cultivated
Africa
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China (s.)
-
EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
-
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Sri Lanka
-
PAPUASIA:
Papua New Guinea
-
INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
-
MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Australasia
-
AUSTRALIA:
Australia (n.)
Northern America
Pacific
-
SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
French Polynesia
Southern America
-
CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
-
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Central America
-
REGION:
South America
Naturalized
(widely natzd. in tropics)
Other
(probable origin West Indies)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | beverage base | | Agustín, J. A. & S. D. Segura Ledesma. 2014. Conservación y uso de los recursos genéticos de Annonaceae en México. Revista Brasil. Frutic. 36:118-124. URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0100-2945&lng=en&nrm=iso Note: Annona muricata is grown in Mexico mostly for beverage use; its use as a fruit is limited |
Human food | fruit | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |