Taxon: Annona glabra L.

Common names:

• alligator-apple   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 2:315.) – English
  
• corkwood   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• cow-apple   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• mangrove anona   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• monkey-apple   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• pond-apple   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• annone des marais   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• cachiman cochon   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• corossol de la mer   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• corossolier des marais   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Alligatorapfel   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Mangroven-Annone   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Wasserapfel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• anón liso   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• bagá   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• cayuda   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 2:315.) – Spanish
  
• corcho   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• palo bobo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• alligatoräpple   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock for Annona   (for Annona spp. fide Pl Res SEAs 2:316. 1991)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Gabon; Sao Tome and Principe
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida [s.]
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador [s.]

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji

• AFRICA
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Malaysia; Philippines
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Venezuela

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).
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hoehne, F. C. 1946. Frutas indigenas. Inst. Bot. São Paulo. 1–88.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Maas, P. J. M. et al. 1994. Studies in Annonaceae. XXI. Index to species and infraspecific taxa of neotropical Annonaceae. Candollea 49:400.
• Maas, P. J. M. et al. 2001. Annonaceae from Central-eastern Brazil. Rodriguésia 52(80):66.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 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.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• 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). 2:315.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Annona glabra.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Annona glabra.

Synonyms:

• (=) Annona humboldtiana Kunth
  
• (=) Annona humboldtii Dunal
  
• (=) Annona palustris L.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Annona glabra L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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
• 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

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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