Annona glabraL.

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WFO wfo-0000537770 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Annona glabra, photographed by Chuck Martin
fig. a Chuck Martin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-17 / obs. 188840311

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
378719
Filed as
Annona glabra L.
Det. by
H. Rainer 1993-04-01
Collected
A. P. Duarte 1950-12-08
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 49 botanical countries

Regions where Annona glabra is native: Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Florida, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Central American Pacific Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. CameroonCongoDR CongoGabonGambiaGuineaGuinea-BissauGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastLiberiaNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneFloridaMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastCentral American Pacific Is.ColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto RicoSouthwest CaribbeanSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.Netherlands AntillesVenezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Annona glabra, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Cayman Is. CAY
Central American Pacific Is. CPI
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Cameroon CMN AFRICA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,022 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.6 °C 16.2 °C 23.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.7 °C 30.7 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,295 mm 1,537 mm 2,303 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 123 mm 157 mm 276 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,022 research-grade observations of Annona glabra that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Annona australis A.St.-Hil.
  • Annona chrysocarpa Lepr. ex Guill. & Perr.
  • Annona chrysocarpa Lepr.
  • Annona klainei Pierre ex Engl. & Diels
  • Annona klainei var. moandensis De Wild.
  • Annona klainii Pierre ex Engl. & Diels
  • Annona klainii var. moandensis De Wild.
  • Annona laurifolia Dunal
  • Annona palustris L.
  • Annona palustris var. grandifolia Mart.
  • Annona peruviana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Dunal
  • Annona uliginosa Kunth
  • Asimina arborea Raf.
  • Cassia ketschta Hasselq.
  • Guanabanus palustris M.Gómez

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.