Custard apple is a common name for several fruits and may refer to Annonaceae, the custard apple family, [1] which includes the following species referred to as custard apples:
- Annona cherimola , a tree and fruit also called cherimoya [2]
- Annona muricata , a tree and fruit also called guanábana or soursop [3]
- Annona reticulata , a tree and fruit also called custard apple, ox heart or bullock's heart
- 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. [7]
Custard apple may also refer to Casimiroa edulis , in the rue or citrus family, Rutaceae.
