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Annona squamosa

Scientific Name
Annona squamosa
Family Name
Annonaceae
Common Names
Custard apple
Local Names
Sitaphal (India), Mak khieb (Laos), Atis (Philippines), Anona (Sri Lanka)
Description
A small tree of about 6m tall. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious, oblong-lanceolate orelliptic obtuse, glabrous above. Flowers yellowish green, solitary, leaf-opposed or 2-4on short extra axillary branchlets. Sepals and petals 3 each. Fruits yellowish green,globose with well marked areoles. Seeds hard, brownish black, smooth. (India)
A tree, 2-8m high. Leaves lanceolate glabrous, long 10cm by 4cm wide.Flowers small,greenish. Fruit almost globose, 7-10cm in diameter. Black seeds. (Laos)
A small tree, about 7 rn high; leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, 3.7-7.5cm long,1,8-3.7cm broad, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, obtuse or subacute, entire, pellucido-purictate glabrous above, glaucous and pubescent beneath when young, lateral nerves8-11 pairs; petioles short; flowers solitary, bisexual, leaf-opposed, or 2-4 on shortextra-axillary branchlets pedicels short, braces below the middle; sepals 3, minute,valvate, triangular, pubescent petals 6, in 2 series, the exterior fleshy. concave at base,2.5cm long, 0.6cm broad, the inner minute or sometimes wantinc stamens many, theproduced connectives ovoid on top ovaries many, connate, superior, ovules 1 to eachcarpel, erect, style oblong; fruit globular, cordate-ovoid or conical, 6-9cm in diameter,yellowish-green, glaucous, comprised of loosely cohering rounded pistils that fallapart quite easily, the pulp white, sweet, soft and juicy, having a very mild agreeableflavour; seeds brownish-black and smooth.Flowers from May to July (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Purgative, mental depression, spinal disorders, suppurative, destroys lice, producesuppuration, haematemesis, cooling, sedative, expectorant, anaemia, burningsensations, cough, malignant tumours (India)
Lice, malaria, diarrhea, intestinal wounds (Laos)
Pulmonary Disorders (Philippines)
Tumours, lice, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, jaundice, suppuration, insecticide, dysentery,purgative (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Philippines - LBES Medicinal Genebank, ERDB
Sri Lanka - Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna
Remarks
Annona squamosa (GRIN)

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