Custard apple
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Custard apple: fruiting branch with sections of fruit and seeds.
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Custard apple is a common name for a fruit, and the tree which bears it, Annona reticulata[1][2]
Custard apple may also refer to similar fruits produced by related trees:
- Annonaceae, the soursop family.[3]
- Asimina triloba,[4] the "pawpaw", a deciduous tree, ranging from southern Ontario to Texas and Florida, that bears the largest edible fruit native to the United States or Canada.[5]
- Annona cherimola, a tree and fruit also called cherimoya.[6]
- Annona squamosa, a tree and fruit also called sugar apple or sweetsop[7]
- Annona senegalensis, a tree and fruit called wild custard-apple[8]
- Casimiroa edulis, also called white sapote, a fruit related to the citrus.
References
- ↑ "Custard Apple". Hort.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
- ↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). "Taxon: Annona reticulata L.". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
- ↑ "Annonaceae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
- ↑ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Custard-apple
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
- ↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). "Taxon: Annona cherimola L.". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
- ↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). "Taxon: Annona squamosa". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
- ↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). "Taxon: Annona senegalensis". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
- ↑ "Health Benefits of Custard Apple", 22 December 2014. Retrieved on 3 May 2015.
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