# Unidentified Fruit **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 30, 2014, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349 "2014-04-30T12:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deflagration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@Deflagration](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deflagration)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/1 "2014-04-30T12:10:14Z")
When I saw the thumbnail of this image I though it was some kind of vegetable, perhaps a Brassica. When viewing full it’s obviously a fruit. Please can someone [identify it for me](https://i.imgur.com/UJzELeE.jpg). Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/2 "2014-04-30T12:25:43Z")
Looks like annona – maybe _[Annona squamosa](http://www.prota4u.org/protav8.asp?h=M5&t=mtopetope&p=Annona+squamosa)_?. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/3 "2014-04-30T12:26:01Z")
> [@Deflagration](#): > > When I saw the thumbnail of this image I though it was some kind of vegetable, perhaps a Brassica. > > When viewing full it’s obviously a fruit. > > Please can someone [identify it for me](https://i.imgur.com/UJzELeE.jpg). > > Thanks. A [custard apple](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona_reticulata). An image search on custard apple will get you photos that look a lot closer to yours than the single image in the wikipedia article. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/4 "2014-04-30T12:31:19Z")
Appears to be a saramuyo a relative to the annona. That is what we call them in the Yucatan. They are my favorite fruit. Only available in April and May. Delicious! > **[Sugar apple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar-apple)** > > The sugar apple or sweetsop is the edible fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of tropical climate in the Americas and West Indies. Spanish traders aboard the Manila galleons docking in the Philippines brought it to Asia. The fruit is spherical-conical, 5–10 centimetres (2–4 inches) in diameter and .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw The f... ---
**Author:** ![Deflagration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@Deflagration](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deflagration)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/5 "2014-04-30T12:45:58Z")
Thank you. Ignorance Fought. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/6 "2014-04-30T12:46:55Z")
We’re all identifying it as from the genus Annona. I think harmonicamoon is correct about the species, though (sugar apple, or saramuyo, is _Annona squamosa_). The species naita mentioned has smoother fruit. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/7 "2014-04-30T12:54:39Z")
n/m ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-fruit/687349/8 "2014-04-30T14:45:51Z")
My favorite fruit too. It grows in the wilderness in India in the state I grew up in. Very delicious and it has to be just the correct ripe to enjoy. Sort of like bananas - but bananas are ripened by ethylene nowadays, so I dont know maybe all fruits can be ripened (?)