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The fruit genus that tastes like a fruit salad already had the argument for you.
means Annona is the plant genus of tropical trees that give us custard apples, soursop, cherimoya, and sugar-apple — fruits famous for tasting like several desserts blended into one.
from Named by Linnaeus from the Latin 'anona,' itself borrowed from Taíno — the indigenous Caribbean language — where 'annon' referred to the fruit of these trees. The name sailed into European botany the same way the fruit itself did: via Spanish colonizers in the Caribbean and tropical Americas, who adopted the local word before science got around to filing it away in Latin.
- roman goddess
- named after the deity of the grain supply
- custard apple kin
- includes soursop, cherimoya, and sugar-apple
- texture trick
- creamy custard flesh hiding glossy black seeds
- neurotoxin debate
- linked by some studies to atypical parkinsonism