Annona purpureaMoc. & Sessé ex Dunal

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WFO wfo-0000537901 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Annona purpurea, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. a Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-17 / obs. 137076743
Annona purpurea, photographed by Aitor
fig. b Aitor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80573422
Annona purpurea, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2555580
Annona purpurea, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50463297
Annona purpurea, photographed by Luke Padon
fig. e Luke Padon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203295088
Annona purpurea, photographed by fern Wildtruth
fig. f fern Wildtruth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152515936
Annona purpurea, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. g Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21580535
Annona purpurea, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. h Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18233824

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Annona purpurea is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Annona purpurea, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
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 144 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.2 °C 18.3 °C 24.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.9 °C 31.1 °C 34.1 °C
Annual rainfall 959 mm 1,832 mm 3,827 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 18 mm 66 mm 225 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 144 research-grade observations of Annona purpurea 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 3 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 involucrata Baill.
  • Annona manirote Kunth
  • Annona prestoei Hemsl.

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.