Taxon:
Annona squamosa L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:537. 1753
Verified:
07/13/2010
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
custard-apple – sugar-apple – sweetsop – Chinese
fan li zhi (番荔枝) – Dutch
kaneelappel – French
annone écailleuse – cachiman cannelle – pomme canelle – German
Rahmapfel – Schuppenannone – Süßsack – Zimtapfel – Zuckerapfel – Italian
mela canella – pomo canella – Portuguese
ata – Portuguese (Brazil)
fruta-do-conde – pinha – Spanish
anón – anona blanca – chirimoyo – fruta de condesa – fruta del conde – Spanish (Mexico)
saramuyo – Swedish
sockerannona – Transcribed Chinese
fan li zhi –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | | Africa | | tropical |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | s. |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
2 | Cultivated | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Queensland | |
2 | Cultivated | Northern America | | Mexico | | s. |
2 | Cultivated | Pacific | North-Central Pacific | United States | Hawaii | |
2 | Cultivated | Pacific | Northwestern Pacific | Micronesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Pacific | South-Central Pacific | French Polynesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | Fiji | | |
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
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REGION:
Africa (tropical)
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China (s.)
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EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Philippines
Australasia
-
AUSTRALIA:
Australia [Queensland]
Northern America
Pacific
-
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States [Hawaii]
-
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Micronesia
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SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
French Polynesia
-
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Fiji
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
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CENTRAL AMERICA:
Central America
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REGION:
South America
Naturalized
(widely natzd. in tropics)
Other
(probable origin West Indies)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | fruit | | Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976) |
Human food | fruit | | DeFilipps, R. A. 1998. Useful plants of the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies. |
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. |
Non-vertebrate poisons | potential for plant pest control | | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |