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custard apple tree - any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp

custard apple - the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp

Annona, genus Annona - type genus of the Annonaceae; tropical American trees or shrubs

Annona cherimola, cherimoya, cherimoya tree - small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit

Annona diversifolia, ilama, ilama tree - tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit

Annona muricata, prickly custard apple, soursop, soursop tree - small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit

Annona reticulata, bullock heart, bullock's heart, bullock's heart tree - small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit

Annona squamosa, sweetsop, sweetsop tree - tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds

Annona glabra, pond apple, pond-apple tree - small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit; used chiefly as grafting stock

Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree, pawpaw - small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit

fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit

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The custard apple tree draws different amounts of nutrients depending on the period of growth and development, and environmental conditions in which they are exposed, especially temperatures and rainfall.

In India when the custard apple tree is not fertilized it goes into gradual decline where malformation of fruits happens, reducing their market value (SAO JOSE et al., 2014).

The development of custard apple flower bud under nitrogen and potassium nutrition/Desenvolvimento de botoes florais da pinheira em funcao da adubacao nitrogenada e potassica

Custard apple tree leaves produce a blue or black dye.

Custard apple trees are large and spreading, shaded by large, green drooping leaves.

CUSTARD APPLE A DELICIOUS FRUIT

Tootsie brought back all these yesterdays as though she was just swishing a curtain across and saying, "Look Margaret, there's you with your embroidery and there's me on my bicycle, Tom Boy that I was, and there's Kenneth with the catapult and there's Desmond under the custard apple tree ..."

It's best to let Tootsie roll

Among fruit trees that became interesting to fruit growers, the custard apple tree (Annona squamosa L.) should be highlighted since it is well adapted to the conditions of the Semi-Arid Region (Maia et al., 1986) and because it yields fruits with a very sweet and fragrant pulp, and a pleasant and exotic flavor, considered the most desirable characteristics of custard apple.

PRODUCTION COSTS AND FRUIT YIELD PROFITABILITY IN THE INITIAL HARVESTS OF CUSTARD APPLE TREES

Custo de producao e lucratividade da producao de frutos de pinheiras nas primeiras safras

Each custard apple tree was associated with a micro sprinkler placed near the stem, with a flow of approximately 50 L [h.sup.-1].

Therefore, in a custard apple tree breeding program, these two characteristics are harder to work with, due to the existence of an interaction between progenies and cropping seasons.

Estimativas de parametros geneticos do rendimento e da qualidade do fruto de progenies da pinheira

There were also custard apple trees galore, tamarind trees, ber (jujube berry in English), and jungle jalebi (shaped like the Indian sweet).

Close encounters with the wonders of nature

The area where it was collected was a tropical deciduous forest dominated by custard apple trees Annona globiflora, gumbo-limbo trees Bursera simaruba, and guazima trees Guazuma ulmifolia.

Specimens of the collared anteater (Tamandua mexicana) from Tamaulipas, Mexico