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Annona squamosa
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Family:
ANNONACEAE
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Citation: Annona squamosa L., Sp. Pl. 537. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 78. 1872; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 20(14). 1915; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 27. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 61. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 57. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 5. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 49. 1990; Debika Mitra in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 207. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 44. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 34. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 45. 1997; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 49. 2005; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 137. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 73. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 103. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Aathi, Aatha, Aathachakka, Amruthakkai, Seethappazham
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Sugar apple, Custard apple, Sweet sop, Sweetsop-Anon, Araticum
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Description:
Trees, to 6 m high, brownish or brownish-black; branchlets seriaceous, glabrous when mature. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 6-20 mm long, stout, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 5-17 x 2-7 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, base acute, obtuse, cuneate, or round, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary or a few together, leaf-opposed; pedicels 1-3 cm long, glabrous; sepals 3, 2-3 x 3-4 mm, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, pubescent outside; petals 6 [3+3], outer 3 petals, 1.5-3 x. 3-0.5 cm, linear-oblong, keeled inside, thick, greenish-white or yellow, reddish at base inside, pubescent outside, inner three petals usually missing or rudimentary, ovate, ca. 1 mm long; stamens many, ca. 1 mm long, anther thecae narrow, with ovoid top of connectives; carpels many, superior, ca. 1 mm long, subconnate, ovoid, pubescent, 1-ovuled, style oblong, stigma entire. Fruit an aggregate of berry, 8-10 cm across, ovoid, greenish, glabrous, tuberculate with rounded tips, glaucous, pulp white; seeds many, black, shiny.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
June-October
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated and almost naturalised
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Distribution:
Native of Central America and West Indies
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Green
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
Yes
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kayamkulam
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