Sugar-apple. Fruits. Young. Srikaya. Buah Srikaya Stock Photography

Sugar-apple or sweetsop or Custard apple is the fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of the tropical Americas and West Indies. The Spanish traders of Manila galleons brought it to Asia where its old Mexican name ate may still be found in Bengali ata, Nepalese aati, Sinhalese mati anoda, Burmese awzar thee, and atis in the Philippines. It is also known as custard apple in India,mainly Annona reticulata in the Philippines and in Australia. The name is also used in Portuguese as ata