Botanical name:-Annona reticulata
Family name:-ANNONACEAE
English name:-custard apple
Tamil names :-Aninuna, manilayatta
Sanskirt name :-lavani
Status:- Native
Edibal parts:-Fruits


Annona reticulata is a small deciduous or semi-evergreen tree in the plant family Annonaceae and part of the Annonas group. It is best known for its fruit, called custard apple, a common name shared with fruits of several other species in the same genus: A. cherimolaand A. squamosa. Its common names include wild sweetsop, soursop and bullock's heart. The fruit is sweet and useful in preparation of desserts,
Tree 5 – 10 m tall. Leaf blade 10 – 20 cm long, 2 – 5 cm wide, lanceolate, acute or obtuse and shortly decurrent at base, gradually long-acuminate at apex, pubescent on both sides when young, glabrate on upper side at maturity. Flowers green, several from intermodal cymes, rarely leaf-opposed. Ripe fruit spherical or ovoid, turning yellow or reddish, smooth, areoles rather flat, separated by a reticulation of often raised ridges, pulp yellowish. Seeds black-brown.



Ayurvedic usage:- Tumors, Skin diseases, Diarrhoea, Dysentery ,Cancer

Parts used to make medicine:  bark, Leaves, Root, Seeds
Propagation:-  Seeds