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Sugar Apple botanical plate
Plate · drawn for the register, 2026Annona squamosa
Fruit

Sugar Apple

Annona squamosa L.
Tropical America
Fun factThe natural pollinators are small nitidulid beetles, and growers who hand-pollinate the flowers can achieve nearly 100% fruit set.

A small spreading tree with thin, dull pale green, lance-shaped leaves that may drop in cool or dry weather. Its small fleshy green flowers are pollinated by tiny beetles and give rise to heart-shaped, knobbly fruits made up of loosely joined segments; inside is a sweet, creamy white pulp around many dark brown seeds.

Sourced · see Record tab
1on the estate
0carrying a tag
0sponsored
FamilyAnnonaceae
Spanish nameAnona
Also known asSweetsop, Anona, Anón
Native toIndigenous to tropical America
TagGarden areaZonePlantedStatusSponsoredNote
—Orchard—5 July 2019Planted—

1 of these has no tag yet; it will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.

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