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Soursop (also called graviola, guyabano, and in Latin America guanábana) is the fruit of Annona muricata, a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is native to the tropical regions of the Americas and the Caribbean and is widely propagated. [ 5 ]
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 Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas [3] commonly known as the custard apple family [4] [3] or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, [ 5 ] it is the largest family in the Magnoliales .
Annona senegalensis, commonly known as African custard-apple, [3] wild custard apple, wild soursop, abo ibobo (Yoruba language), [4] sunkungo (Mandinka language), and dorgot (Wolof language) [5] is a species of flowering plant in the custard apple family, Annonaceae.
Fruit anatomy is the plant anatomy of the internal structure of fruit. [6] [7] In berries and drupes, the pericarp forms the edible tissue around the seeds. In other fruits such as citrus and stone fruits only some layers of the pericarp are eaten.
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.
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 .
The endosperm is a tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants following double fertilization. It is triploid (meaning three chromosome sets per nucleus) in most species, [1] which may be auxin-driven. [2] It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch, though it can also contain oils and protein. This ...