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What (who) is custard apple - definition

LIST OF PLANTS WITH THE SAME OR SIMILAR NAMES
Custard-apple; Custard Apple; Custard apples
  • Custard apple: fruiting branch with sections of fruit and seeds.

custard apple         
¦ noun
1. a large fleshy tropical fruit with a sweet yellow pulp.
2. the tree which bears custard apples, native to Central and South America. [Genus Annona: several species.]
sugar apple         
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FRUIT OF ANNONA SQUAMOSA
Sugar-apple; Sugar Apple; Sweetsop; Sweet sop; Fruta do conde; Sitafal; Pinha; Sitaphal
¦ noun another term for sweetsop.
Sugar-apple         
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FRUIT OF ANNONA SQUAMOSA
Sugar-apple; Sugar Apple; Sweetsop; Sweet sop; Fruta do conde; Sitafal; Pinha; Sitaphal
The sugar-apple or sweet-sop is the edible fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of tropical climate in the Americas and West Indies. Spanish traders aboard the Manila galleons docking in the Philippines brought it to Asia.

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Custard apple

Custard apple is a common name for several fruits and may refer to:

These include:

  • Annonaceae, the custard apple family, includes the following species referred to as custard apples:
    • Asimina triloba, the "pawpaw", a deciduous tree, with a range from southern Ontario to Texas and Florida, that bears the largest edible fruit native to the United States or Canada.
    • Annona cherimola, a tree and fruit also called cherimoya
    • Annona reticulata
    • Annona squamosa, a tree and fruit also called sugar apple or sweetsop
    • Annona senegalensis, a tree and fruit called wild custard-apple
  • Casimiroa edulis, in the rue or citrus family, Rutaceae
Examples of use of custard apple
1. The fruit market also offers buyers a variety of choices of Autumn fruits such as grapefruit, custard apple, dragon fruit, duran and mangosteen.
2. "For the past three years the government has given me a subsidy for planting and nurturing these custard apple trees and now that we have rains this year I should be able to get a steady income from the fruits for the next 20–25 years," Kamte said.