Sugar Apple

The sugar apple, also called sweetsop or custard apple, is the edible fruit of Annona squamosa, a small tree or shrub that tolerates a tropical lowland climate better than its relatives Annona reticulata and Annona cherimola and is the most widely cultivated of these Annona species. Native to the tropical Americas, it was carried to Asia by Spanish traders aboard the Manila galleons. The atemoya, a hybrid of the sugar apple and the cherimoya first developed in the United States in 1908 and now common in Taiwan, shares its sweetness with a pineapple-like taste.