Annona muricata

Plant Description: Annona muricata, a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree . The soursop is adapted to areas of high humidity and relatively warm winters temperatures below 5 °C will cause damage to leaves and small branches. Soursop is widely promoted as a alternative cancer treatment .however there is no medical evidence of the same The Annona muricata tree is low-branching and bushy but slender because of its upturned limbs, and reaches a height of 7.5-9 m. Young branchlets are rusty-hairy. The malodorous leaves, normally evergreen, are alternate, smooth, glossy, dark green on the upper surface, lighter beneath; oblong, elliptic or narrowobovate, pointed at both ends. The flowers, which are borne singly, may emerge anywhere on the trunk, branches or twigs. They are short stocked 4 to 5 cm long, plump, and triangular-conical, fleshy, slightly spreading, outer petals yellow-green.