Anona
a genus of plants, the type of the natural order anoпaceӕ. A. squamosa (sweet sop) grows in the West Indian islands, and yields an edible fruit having a thick, sweet, luscious pulp. A. muricata (sour sop) is cultivated in the West and East Indies; it produces a large pear-shaped fruit, of a greenish color, containing an agreeable, slightly acid pulp. The genus produces other edible fruits, as the common custard apple or bullock's heart, from A. reticulata, and the cherimoyer of Peru, A. cherimolia.
ANONACEÆ, an order of exogenous plants classed by Lindley under his ranales, or ranal alliance. They have six petals, hypogynous stamina generally indefinite in number, numerous ovaries, and a many carpeled, succulent, or dry fruit, ules. They are trees or shrubs occurring in the tropics of both hemispheres. In 1846 Lindley estimated the known species at 300. Most have a powerful aromatic taste and smell, and the flowers of some are highly fragrant. Some have a succulent and eatable fruit. and alternate simple without stip-