Atemoya

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image_caption = Left: Taiwanese "pineapple "shijia" (Atemoya, a hybrid of sugar-apple and cherimoya); Right: Regular Taiwanese "shijia"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Magnoliids
ordo = Magnoliales
familia = Annonaceae
genus = "Annona"
species = "A. ×atemoya"
binomial = "Annona ×atemoya"
binomial_authority = Mabb.|The atemoya, "Annona ×atemoya", is a cross between two tropical fruits – the sweetsop ("Annona squamosa") and the cherimoya ("Annona cherimola") – which are both native fruits of the tropical Americas. This fruit is popular in Taiwan where it is known as the "pineapple sweetsop" (鳳梨釋迦) and is sometimes mistaken for a cross between the sweetsop and the pineapple. In Cuba this fruit is called "mamon", and in Venezuela "chirimorinon".

An atemoya is normally heart-shaped or rounded, with pale-green, easily-bruised, bumpy skin. It is very juicy and smooth, with the white flesh tasting slightly sweet and a little tart, reminiscent of a Piña Colada. There are many inedible black seeds throughout the flesh of the atemoya. The seeds are toxic. [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/atemoya.html Purdue New Crops Profile] ]

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