Soursop
ಮುಳ್ಳುರಾಮಫಲமுள்ளு சீதாలక్ష్మణ ఫలం
Annona muricata L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- —
Annonaceae
Also called Guanabana
Formerly Annona bonplandiana, Annona cearaensis
When it flowers
Flowers August to June in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Mexico to Venezuela and PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, one source
- Height
- 10 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Guanábana, Anona
- root
- xun'aipill, kòsòl, banabana
- Indonesian
- Sirsak
- French
- Corossolier
- Portuguese
- Gravioleira, jaca-de-pobre, Graviola
- Chinese
- 刺果番荔枝, 酸釋迦, 刺番荔枝
- Finnish
- oka-annoona
- Czech
- anona ostnitá
- Japanese
- トゲバンレイシ
- Chinese (China)
- 刺果番荔枝, 酸释迦
- Sinhala
- කටු අනෝදා, කටු ආත්තා
- Russian
- Сметанное яблоко, Аннона колючая
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Annona muricata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.