Five types of peat appear in the Everglades system; each type supports a specific type of vegetation, such as sawgrass, tree islands, or custard apple trees.
From the terrace of my house, I had a view out over the fields to a stand of custard-apple trees and an ancient domed structure, probably the tomb of some minor notable, both framed against the yellowing walls of what must have once been an enclosed fort.
Soursop (Annona muricata), also called guanabana, graviola, or Brazilian pawpaw, tree of the custard apple family (Annonaceae), grown for its large edible fruits.
For examples, subtype M1 was found on lemon in Tainan City and on persimmon in Chiayi County, while subtype M6 was found on custard apple in Taitung County and on orchid tree in Nantou County.
Sweetsop (Annona squamosa), also called sugar apple or pinha, small tree or shrub of the custard apple family (Annonaceae).
The custard apple (A. reticulata), a small, tropical American tree, gives the family one of its common names.
In a naturalistic style that later influenced the ornithologist John James Audubon, she had her white cockatoo depicted pecking at a custard apple branch, and a pied hornbill clutching a tree stump entwined in a flowering creeper vine.
Some trees provided fruit: tamarind, marula, raisinier, custard apple.
Sour plum, Ju-Ju plum, mangos, dragon fruit, the fruit of the cashew tree, star fruit, sugar apple, craboo, and custard apple.
Custard apple (genus Annona), genus of about 160 species of small trees or shrubs of the family Annonaceae, native to the New World tropics.
