Scientific Name: Annona squamosa L.
Family: Annonaceae
Synonym: Annona asiatica L., Annona forskahlii DC. Vernacular name: Aathi, Aathachakka, Seethappazham
Habit:
Tree
Habitat: Cultivated
Distribution: India, Central
America, West Indies
Flowering and Fruiting: May-October
Key
identification features: Trees,
brownish or brownish-black; branchlets sericeous, glabrous when mature. Leaves
simple, alternate, distichous, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong.
Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary or a few together, leaf-opposed. Stamens
many. Fruit an aggregate of berry, ovoid, greenish, glabrous, tuberculate with
rounded tips, glaucous, pulp white; seeds many, black, shining.
Tribal Consumers: Adiya
Uses: Its leaves and seeds have traditional medicinal uses for
treating digestive issues and skin disorders.
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