This species is closely related to the cherimoya, the sugar-apple and other Annonas.

Sugar-apple has a very distinct, sweet-smelling fragrance.

Near the stem, the skin is bumpy as it is in the sugar-apple, but become smoother like the cherimoya on the bottom.

The flesh is not segmented like that of the sugar-apple, bearing more similarity to that of the cherimoya.

Sugar-apple (Annona squamosa)

Sugar-apple (anón)

Sugar-apple (sharifa)

Experiments in South Florida have been made in an attempt to use it as a superior rootstock for Sugar-apple or Soursop.

Pawpaw is in the same family (Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, Sugar-apple, ylang-ylang and soursop, and it is the only member of that family not confined to the tropics.

The atemoya or "pineapple sugar-apple", a hybrid between the Sugar Apple and the Cherimoya, is popular in Taiwan, although it was first developed in the USA in 1908.

The resulting fruits were of superior quality to the sugar-apple and were given the name "atemoya", a combination of ate, an old Mexican name for sugar-apple, and "moya" from cherimoya.

Sugar-apple is high in calories, an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese, a good source of thiamine and vitamin B6, and provides vitamin B2, B3 B5, B9, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium in fair quantities.

The park has a dry evergreen scrub and thorn forest, grasslands and water bodies with over 350 species of plants including shrubs, climbers, herbs and grasses and over 24 varieties of trees, including the Sugar-apple, Atlantia monophylla, Wood-apple, and Neem.