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The cherimoya (Annona cherimola), also spelled chirimoya and called chirimuya by the Quechua people, is a species of edible fruit-bearing plant in the genus Annona, from the family Annonaceae, which includes the closely related sweetsop and soursop.
Atemoya (Annona cherimola × squamosa) was developed by crossing cherimoya (A. cherimola) with sugar-apple (A. squamosa). Natural hybrids have been found in Venezuela and chance hybrids were noted in adjacent sugar apple and cherimoya groves in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. [6]
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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 .
Among hardiest of cherimoya, does well in most present growing areas. Tree 6–9 metres (20–30 ft) high. Fruit is conical, medium size, rather seedy, with flavor that suggests papaya. Bronceada Fruit of large size, conical shape and large number of bottles. Relatively thick skin, tan to yellow in maturity.
Annona senegalensis, a tree and fruit called wild custard-apple [4] Annona squamosa , a tree and fruit also called sugar apple or sweetsop [ 5 ] Asimina triloba , [ 6 ] 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.
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 cherimolioides is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Colombia and Ecuador . [ 2 ] José Jerónimo Triana and Jules Émile Planchon , the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after its resemblance to another Annona species A. cherimoya .