Hands hold two cut Annona muricata fruit pieces showing fibrous white flesh and dark green skin with curved spines

Annona muricata (Soursop)

Name: Annona muricata (Soursop)
Address: CO

Native from southern Mexico through Central America to Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia, this evergreen fruit tree can reach about 33 feet tall. In Colombia, it occurs between about 300 and 6,600 feet. Flowers can develop directly on the trunk and branches. The large, soft-spined fruits can reach about 12 inches long; their sweet-tart, fibrous white pulp is eaten fresh or made into juices, ice cream, and desserts. The seeds are toxic and should not be eaten. It has naturalized on Molokaʻi in Hawaiʻi, United States and in Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands, where it is considered potentially invasive. Photographed in the department of Magdalena, Colombia.

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An Annona muricata flower has three large fleshy yellow outer petals surrounding smaller inner petals

A large curved Annona muricata fruit bears pointed green spines beside leaves and a woody branch