Taxon: Annona muricata L.

Common names:

• soursop   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• zuurzak   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• anone   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• cachiman épineux   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• corossol épineux   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• grand corossol   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• Sauersack   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• Stachelannone   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• graviola   (Source: P. J. M. Maas, p.c.) – Portuguese
  
• araticum-grande   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• araticum-manso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• coração-de-rainha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jaca-de-pobre   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jaca-do-Pará   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• anona   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• guanábana   (Source: CoopAmaz ) – Spanish
  
• guanábano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• taggannona   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: beverage base   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock for Annona   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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

Distributional range:

• widely naturalized in tropics

• AFRICA
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

• probable origin West Indies

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).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• 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.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• 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 49:404.
• Maas, P. J. M. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• 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.
• 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). 2:75–78.
• Villachica, H. 1996. Frutales y hortalizas promisorios de la amazonia. In: Secretaria Pro-Tempore, Tratado de Cooperacion Amazonica. 44:129–136.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Annona muricata.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Annona muricata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Annona macrocarpa auct.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Annona muricata L.:

• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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