''Annona salzmannii'', the beach sugar apple, is a tree native to

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It is an extremely rare ''

Annona ''Annona'' (from Taíno ''annon'') is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. It is the second largest genus in the family after ''Guatteria'', containing approximately 166

'' bearing orange skinned fruits up to one pound in weight with a sweet and very tasty white pulp. The fruit is prized in its native range, but is rare and never cultivated. The tree is an evergreen

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are ...

to , one of the tallest ''Annona''

s. These fruit trees are like '' A. scleroderma'' and '' A. crassiflora''. ''A. salzmannii'' is a food source for golden-headed lion tamarins (one of 155 tree species useful to the tamarins).

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q3927433 salzmannii Flora of Brazil Tropical fruit Plants described in 1832