Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

Sweetsop

Annona squamosa

Spanish: Anona / Saramuyo

Sweetsop (Annona squamosa)
Photographed by keishacharlene on iNaturalist · taken in Puerto Rico, San Antonio, PR, US, not near La Saladita

Annona squamosa is a small, well-branched tree or shrub from the family Annonaceae that bears edible fruits called sugar-apples or sweetsops. It tolerates a tropical lowland climate better than its relatives Annona reticulata and Annona cherimola (whose fruits often share the same name) helping make it the most widely cultivated of these species. Annona squamosa is a small, semi-(or late) deciduous, much branched shrub or small tree 3 metres (9.8 ft) to 8 metres (26 ft) tall very...

TaxonomyMagnoliopsida › Magnoliales › Annonaceae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records6,919 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Sweetsop (Annona squamosa) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/annona-squamosa/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.