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The atemoya, Annona ×atemoya, is a cross between two tropical fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
s – the sweetsop (Annona squamosa
Annona squamosa

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) and the cherimoya
Cherimoya

The cherimoya is a species of Annona native to the Andes-highland valleys of Ecuador and Peru. It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub or small tree reaching 7 m tall....
 (Annona cherimola
Annona cherimola

Originally called Chirimuya by the Inca Empire who lived where it was growing in the Andes of South America, Annona cherimola is an edible fruit bearing species of the genus Annona from the family Annonaceae is now widely cultivated mostly for its sweet fruits that share the name Custard-apple with others in its family....
) – which are both native fruits of the tropical Americas. This fruit is popular in Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
 where it is known as the "pineapple sweetsop" and is sometimes mistaken for a cross between the sweetsop and the pineapple
Pineapple

Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
. In Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
 this fruit is called mamon, and in Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
 chirimorinon.

An atemoya is normally heart-shaped or rounded, with pale-green, easily-bruised, bumpy skin.






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The atemoya, Annona ×atemoya, is a cross between two tropical fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
s – the sweetsop (Annona squamosa
Annona squamosa

|image = Sugar-apple.jpg|image_caption = Sugar-apple|regnum = Plantae|unranked_divisio = Angiosperms|unranked_classis = Magnoliids|ordo = Magnoliales...
) and the cherimoya
Cherimoya

The cherimoya is a species of Annona native to the Andes-highland valleys of Ecuador and Peru. It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub or small tree reaching 7 m tall....
 (Annona cherimola
Annona cherimola

Originally called Chirimuya by the Inca Empire who lived where it was growing in the Andes of South America, Annona cherimola is an edible fruit bearing species of the genus Annona from the family Annonaceae is now widely cultivated mostly for its sweet fruits that share the name Custard-apple with others in its family....
) – which are both native fruits of the tropical Americas. This fruit is popular in Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
 where it is known as the "pineapple sweetsop" and is sometimes mistaken for a cross between the sweetsop and the pineapple
Pineapple

Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
. In Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
 this fruit is called mamon, and in Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
 chirimorinon.

An atemoya is normally heart-shaped or rounded, with pale-green, easily-bruised, bumpy skin. It is very juicy and smooth, with the white flesh tasting slightly sweet and a little tart, reminiscent of a Piña Colada
Piña Colada

The pi?a colada is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with light rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice....
. There are many inedible black seed
Seed

A seed is a small Plant embryogenesis plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some Food storage. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant....
s throughout the flesh of the atemoya. The seeds are toxic.