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The compound annonacin is contained in the fruit, seeds, and leaves of soursop. [17] [18] [19] The leaves of Annona muricata contain annonamine, which is an aporphine-class alkaloid containing a quaternary ammonium group. [20] The plant also contains lichexanthone, a compound in the xanthone class. [21]
Oxalis pes-caprae, commonly known as African wood-sorrel, Bermuda buttercup, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, goat's-foot, sourgrass, soursob or soursop; Afrikaans: suring; Arabic: hommayda (حميضة), [2] is a species of tristylous yellow-flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae.
The leaf base is squared or barely lobeliar. The leaf margin is entire. Stout petioles are 0.5–2.5 cm long. [6] Flowers mature to up to 3 cm in diameter, on 2 cm stalks, either singular, or two to four, ascending from the leaf axils. Six thick, creamy or xanthate petals display in double whorls, and green on the outside, but either creamy or ...
The acetogenin compounds, which occur in the fruit, seeds, and leaves of many Annonaceae, including soursop (Annona muricata), are neurotoxins and seem to be the cause of a neurodegenerative disease. The disorder is a so-called tauopathy associated with a pathologic accumulation of tau protein in the brain.
Annona or Anona (from Taíno annon) is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae.It is the second largest genus in the family after Guatteria, [3] containing approximately 166 [4] species of mostly Neotropical and Afrotropical trees and shrubs.
Soursop fruit, a source of annonacin. Historically, plants and fruits of Annonaceae (particularly Annona muricata and Annona squamosa) have been consumed in various forms throughout the West Indies, usually as hot water extracts of leaves. [1] These annonacin-containing herbal teas are thought to be useful in folk medicine. [1]
Annona montana, the mountain soursop, is a tree and its edible fruit in the Annonaceae family native to Central America, the Amazon, and islands in the Caribbean. It has fibrous fruits. [ 4 ] A. montana may be used as a rootstock for cultivated Annonas .
Annona glabra is a tropical fruit tree in the family Annonaceae, in the same genus as the soursop and cherimoya.Common names include pond apple, alligator apple (so called because American alligators often eat the fruit), swamp apple, corkwood, bobwood, and monkey apple. [2]