Taxon: Annona glabra L.

Common names:

• alligator-apple   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 2:315.) – English
  
• pond-apple   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• annone des marais   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• corossolier des marais   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Wasserapfel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• anón liso   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• bagá   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• palo bobo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: potential as graft stock   (for Annona spp. fide Pl Res SEAs 2:316. 1991)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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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
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador [s.]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• ALSO
  Asia [tropical]

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
• Hoehne. 1946. Frutas indigenas, Inst. Bot. São Paulo.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. (F PuertoR)
• 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. (Mansfeld)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3). (F Nicaragua)
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 2:315.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Annona glabra.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Annona glabra. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

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

Check other databases for Annona glabra L.:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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