Annona squamosa | Sugar Apple | Sweetsop | 5_Seeds Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Annona squamosa | Sugar Apple | Sweetsop | 5_Seeds Tropical Checkered-SkipperThis is Annona squamosa, also known as Sugar Apple, and Sweetsop. This tree produces a popular tropical fruit called sugar apple. This tree can grow to about 12 feet high and likes to live in sun or partial shade. It blossoms from the middle of the Spring until early Summer. This plant is somewhat drought tolerant and cannot survive a freeze. Annona squamosa is a larval host plant for the Tailed jay Swallowtail butterfly. USDA Hardiness Zones 10 to 11

This is not a Hybrid

This is a great ornamental plant for warm tropical climates

This is a fast growing evergreen vine that gets about 50 feet long

This plant was named sexflora because it tends to produce clusters of six flowers

also known as purpurea Doppelganger

also known as Australian blackwood

and white blossoms that are on display from late spring through the middle of the summer

The wood is highly values and used to make cabinets

and Tailed Jay butterflies

while the extract of the seed is used for insecticides

and Oceania

and bright yellow blossoms remind you that Spring is definitely here