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Annona
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, containing approximately 166 species of mostly Neotropical and Afrotropical trees and shrubs.
The generic name derives from anón, a Hispaniolan Taíno word for the fruit. Paleoethnobotanical studies have dated Annona exploitation and cultivation in the Yautepec River region of Mexico to approximately 1000 BC. Plants of the genus have several common names, including sugar-apple, soursop, anona, cherimoya and guanábana.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Soursop
speciesAnnona muricata
Pond Apple
speciesAnnona glabra
Sweetsop
speciesAnnona squamosa
Cherimoya
speciesAnnona cherimola
Wild Sweetsop
speciesAnnona reticulata
mountain soursop
speciesAnnona montana
wild custard-apple
speciesAnnona senegalensis
Biriba
speciesAnnona mucosa
Soncoya
speciesAnnona purpurea
Annona crassiflora
speciesAnnona crassiflora
Ilama
speciesAnnona macroprophyllata
Annona emarginata
speciesAnnona emarginata
Annona coriacea
speciesAnnona coriacea
Annona monticola
speciesAnnona monticola
Annona sylvatica
speciesAnnona sylvatica
Annona exsucca
speciesAnnona exsucca
Annona dolabripetala
speciesAnnona dolabripetala
atemoya
hybridAnnona × atemoya
Annona globiflora
speciesAnnona globiflora
Annona longiflora
speciesAnnona longiflora
Annona tomentosa
speciesAnnona tomentosa
Annona dioica
speciesAnnona dioica
Annona rugulosa
speciesAnnona rugulosa
Annona paludosa
speciesAnnona paludosa
Annona nutans
speciesAnnona nutans
Annona cacans
speciesAnnona cacans
Annona maritima
speciesAnnona maritima
Annona cornifolia
speciesAnnona cornifolia
Annona leptopetala
speciesAnnona leptopetala
Annona neosericea
speciesAnnona neosericea
Annona spraguei
speciesAnnona spraguei
Annona rensoniana
speciesAnnona rensoniana
Annona ambotay
speciesAnnona ambotay
Annona neosalicifolia
speciesAnnona neosalicifolia
Annona holosericea
speciesAnnona holosericea
Annona nana
speciesAnnona nana
Annona cherimolioides
speciesAnnona cherimolioides
Annona sericea
speciesAnnona sericea
Annona hypoglauca
speciesAnnona hypoglauca
Annona warmingiana
speciesAnnona warmingiana
Annona haematantha
speciesAnnona haematantha
Annona foetida
speciesAnnona foetida
Annona pittieri
speciesAnnona pittieri
Annona hayesii
speciesAnnona hayesii
Annona jahnii
speciesAnnona jahnii
Annona salzmannii
speciesAnnona salzmannii
Annona crotonifolia
speciesAnnona crotonifolia
Annona papilionella
speciesAnnona papilionella
Annona edulis
speciesAnnona edulis
Annona bicolor
speciesAnnona bicolor
Annona amazonica
speciesAnnona amazonica
Annona deceptrix
speciesAnnona deceptrix
Annona vepretorum
speciesAnnona vepretorum
Annona acutiflora
speciesAnnona acutiflora
Annona stenophylla
speciesAnnona stenophylla
Annona neochrysocarpa
speciesAnnona neochrysocarpa
Annona herzogii
speciesAnnona herzogii
Annona quinduensis
speciesAnnona quinduensis
Annona manabiensis
speciesAnnona manabiensis
Annona parviflora
speciesAnnona parviflora
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.45
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.210
Maria Sibylla Merian — Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium (1719)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1719 · p.59
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Willem Piso / Georg Marcgraf · 1648 · p.238
A voyage to the islands Madera Barbados Jamaica Vol. 1
Hans Sloane · 1707 · p.589
A voyage to the islands Madera Barbados Jamaica Vol. 1
Hans Sloane · 1707 · p.591
The Ambonese Herbal (Herbarium Amboinense), Vol. 1
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1741 · p.221
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.188
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Annona in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 69974.