Steinmetz:Annona

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Annona reticulata

Also known as (or relevant to)
Family
Annonaceae
English Names
  • True Custard Apple of America
  • Sweetsop
  • Bull's heart
  • Bullock's heart
Natural Habitat
  • West Indies
  • Naturalized in India
  • Indonesia
Part(s) Used
  • Fructus
  • Semen
  • Lignum
Constituent(s)
  • seed
  • bark: tannic acid; fruit: sugar; the root contains a deadly poison
Action
  • bark: astringent
  • tonic; seed: astringent
  • used in diarrhoea and dysentery
  • vermifuge; kernel of seed: highly poisonous



Annona squamosa

Also known as (or relevant to)
Family
Annonaceae
English Names
  • Custard Apple
  • Sugar Apple
  • Sweet Sop of America
Natural Habitat
  • West Indies
  • cultivated in Africa
  • Orient
  • America
Part(s) Used
  • Folia
  • Semen (resins, oil, acrid principle)
  • Fructu (sugars)
Action
  • leaf
  • seed: vermicide
  • insecticide; bark: tonic
  • astringent; root: violently purgative. The creamy sweet pulp of the apple is wholesome and delicious and is employed in cooling drinks in fevers and to flavour cold puddings
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