Sugar apple
ಸೀತಾಫಲशरीफाசீதாப்பழம்
Annona squamosa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 5.3 m
Annonaceae
Formerly Annona asiatica, Annona cinerea, Annona distincta, Annona forskahlii, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to ColombiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS 15–20 ft; Wikipedia 3–8 m
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Chinese
- 番荔枝, 釋迦, 番荔枝叶
- Simplified Chinese
- 林檎, 唛螺陀, 洋波罗
- Malagasy
- Zato
- Hindi
- शरीफा
- Tamil
- சீதாப்பழம், சீத்தாப்பழம், சீதாப் பழம்
- Telugu
- చక్కెర ఆపిల్, మంచి సీతాఫలం, సీతాఫలం
- Kannada
- ಸೀತಾಫಲ
- Marathi
- सीताफळ
- Bangla
- শরিফা, আতা
- Malayalam
- സീതപ്പഴം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Annona squamosa (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.