Taxon: Annona cherimola Mill.

Common names:

• cherimoya   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• custard-apple   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• mao ye fan li zhi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• chérimolier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Cherimoya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• atemóia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cherimóia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• chirimoyo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• kirimoja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Pl Book)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Loja [Andes]; Peru [Andes]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel
  China: China [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy [s.]
  Southwestern Europe: Spain [s.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Escribano, P. et al. 2008. Development of 52 new polymorphic SSR markers from cherimoya (Annona cherimola Mill.): transferability to related taxa and selection of a reduced set for DNA fingerprinting and diversity studies. Molec. Ecol. Res. 8:317–321.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Killeen, T. J. et al. 1993. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. ["cherimolia"].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. et al. 1964–1974. Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
• Maas, P. J. M. et al. 1994. Studies in Annonaceae. XXI. Index to species and infraspecific taxa of neotropical Annonaceae. Candollea 49:397.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Spichiger, R., ed. 1985–. Flora del Paraguay. ["cherimolia"].
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:71.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). ["cherimolia"].

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Annona cherimola.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Annona cherimola.

Synonyms:

• (=) Annona pubescens Salisb.
  
• (=) Annona tripetala Aiton
  

Check other web resources for Annona cherimola Mill.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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