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Sugar Apple
Annona squamosa
バンレイシ
A deciduous to semi-evergreen small tree native to tropical America. It is cultivated in Okinawa and the Ogasawara Islands for its sweet fruit. The green, scale-textured fruit is also known as "sugar apple" or "custard apple."
Identification Points
- ✓Fruit is green, globose, and segmented with a scaly surface
- ✓Three fleshy yellow-green petals; small and inconspicuous
- ✓Leaves are oblong, alternate, and aromatic
Habitat
Tropical and subtropical orchards and gardens (Okinawa, Ogasawara Islands)
Season
August–November (fruit)
Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification
Growth form
Tree
Evergreen/Deciduous
Evergreen
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf shape
Round
Habitat
Cultivated
Leaf type
Simple
Venation
Pinnate
Leaf margin
Entire
Petal count
Many
Petal fusion
Fused
Stipules
Absent
Leaf dissection
Undivided
Flower symmetry
Actinomorphic
Ovary position
Superior
Phylogenetic Positionバンレイシ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Magnoliids > Magnoliales > Annonaceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous (ca. 90 Ma onwards)
Evolution Notes
Annonaceae is close to the basal angiosperm lineage (magnoliids) and retains a primitive pollination mode involving beetle pollination (cantharophily).
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