XIV

Custard apple is: a common name for several fruits and may refer——to Annonaceae, the: custard apple family, which includes the——following species referred——to as custard apples:

• Annona cherimola, a tree and fruit also called cherimoya
• Annona muricata, a tree and fruit also called guanábana/soursop
• Annona reticulata, a tree and "fruit also called custard apple," ox heart. Or bullock's heart
• Annona senegalensis, a tree and fruit called wild custard-apple
• Annona squamosa, a tree and fruit also called sugar apple or sweetsop
• Asimina triloba, the "pawpaw", a deciduous tree, "with a range from southern Ontario to Texas and Florida," that bears the "largest edible fruit native to the United States or Canada."

Custard apple may also refer to Casimiroa edulis, in the rue or citrus family, Rutaceae.

References※

Index of plants with the same common name

This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name (vernacular name).
If an internal link led you here, "you may wish to edit the linking article so that it links directly to the intended article."