
Annonaceae FAMILY
Annona scleroderma
Annona scleroderma
Edibility
4/5
Medicinal
1/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitSemi-deciduous Tree
Growth—
Not known
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-19. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Annona+scleroderma>
Pollinators
Beetles, Insects
References
- [1]Flora of Guatemala — Standley P.C. & J. A. Steyermark · 1946 - 1976 · http://www.archive.org/ ↩︎A superb reference, though somewhat dated. Gives lots of plant uses as well as information on plant habit and habitat. The entire flora (13 volumes) can now be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/
- [2]Elsevier’s Dictionary of Trees, Volume 1 North America: With Names in Latin, English, French, Spanish and other lang — Grandtner M.M. · Elsevier B.V.; Amsterdam, The Netherlands · 2005 · ISBN 0-444-51784-7 ↩︎
- [3]Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 3. 1913 — Burgess G.K.; Ransome F.L. & Scofield C.S. (Editors) · Washington Academy of Sciences; Baltimore · 1913 ↩︎
- [4]Food Plants in the Americas: A Survey of the Domesticated, Cultivated, and Wild Plants Used for Human Food in North, — Kermath B.M.; Bennett B.C.' Pulsipher L.M. · 2014 ↩︎A pre-publication draft of an amazing, on-going work first started in 1985. It contains information on more than 3,900 taxa from the Americas - from Arctic regions to the Tropics