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Summary
Annona mucosa is a species of flowering plant in the custard-apple family, Annonaceae, that is native to tropical South America. It is cultivated for its edible fruits, commonly known as biribá, lemon meringue pie fruit, wild sugar-apple, or rollinia throughout the world's tropics and subtropics.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Annona mucosa", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Annona
Annona or Anona is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. It is the second largest genus in the family after Guatteria, containing approximately 166 species of mostly Neotropical and Afrotropical trees and shrubs.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Annona", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,124 mm of 2,926 mm) falls in May to November. The temperature curve is flat, 1.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
2,926 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,124 mm of it May to November. Wettest month September at 340 mm, driest month January at 108 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,865 mm to 4,258 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,950 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,926 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 35 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 18.1 °C, the absolute minimum 15.1 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.1 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 19.6 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 14.8 °C to 23.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.6 °C in March (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 18.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 65 to 69% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -417 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 27 °C in Jan, Nov and Dec to 29 °C in Mar and Apr; mean nightly low from 20 °C in Jan, Feb, Nov and Dec to 22 °C in Apr, May and Sep. The cold quarter, Nov to Jan, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 4 months in a row that tie for it. 2,926 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Sep. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 320 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 15.1 °C and the 99th-percentile day 35.1 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 27 / 23–31 | 28 / 24–31 | 29 / 25–31 | 29 / 26–32 | 28 / 25–32 | 28 / 25–31 | 28 / 25–30 | 28 / 25–30 | 28 / 25–31 | 28 / 24–30 | 27 / 24–29 | 27 / 23–30 |
| Night °C | 20 / 15–23 | 20 / 15–24 | 21 / 16–24 | 22 / 17–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 21 / 18–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 22 / 18–23 | 21 / 17–23 | 20 / 17–23 | 20 / 16–23 |
| Rain mm | 108 / 27–286 | 122 / 34–289 | 157 / 45–320 | 251 / 58–429 | 313 / 116–493 | 300 / 142–523 | 286 / 115–506 | 301 / 135–544 | 340 / 163–597 | 331 / 179–501 | 253 / 105–393 | 164 / 61–325 |
| DLI | 31 / 22–35 | 33 / 27–37 | 35 / 29–40 | 34 / 27–42 | 31 / 25–41 | 31 / 23–38 | 32 / 24–40 | 33 / 27–40 | 32 / 26–38 | 31 / 25–35 | 29 / 23–33 | 29 / 21–33 |
| RH % | 66 / 57–71 | 65 / 56–70 | 65 / 57–70 | 67 / 59–72 | 68 / 60–72 | 68 / 63–73 | 68 / 61–73 | 68 / 61–73 | 69 / 63–73 | 69 / 64–73 | 69 / 63–73 | 68 / 61–71 |
Records on both sides of the equator: the 28 cells at least 10° south of it have seasons six months apart and are left out, not combined into a year no place has. These figures are across the 320 cells that remain: the 109 at least 10° north and the 211 within 10° of the equator, which stay in either way.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Dylan Camacho Guzman, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Alexis López Hernández, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino, some rights reserved (CC BY).
Related
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Drymonia serrulata Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández
Palicourea deflexa Nodding wild coffee Photo: CC BY, Yoannis Domínguez
Aristolochia pilosa Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY, Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
Satyria panurensis Ericaceae Photo: CC BY, Andrés Ramírez-BarreraOther Annona 17 in the reference
Annona cherimola Cherimoya Photo: CC BY, Viktor Annona cherimolioides Annonaceae
Annona coriacea Annonaceae Photo: CC BY, Thomaz Ricardo Favreto Sinani
Annona crassiflora Fleshyflower annona Photo: CC BY-SA, Wallace Carneiro Almeida
Annona emarginata Annonaceae Photo: CC BY, Jens-Christian Svenning
Annona glabra Pond apple Photo: CC0, author not stated
Annona longiflora Wild cherimoya of Jalisco Photo: CC BY, Viacheslav Shalisko
Annona macroprophyllata Ilama Photo: CC BY, Jordi Martínez Martínez
Annona montana Mountain soursop Photo: CC0, author not stated
Annona muricata Soursop Photo: CC BY, Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino
Annona purpurea Negrohead Photo: CC BY, birdzilla all 18 ›Names & registers
Also known as Annona biflora; Annona muscosa; Annona obtusiflora; Annona obtusifolia; Annona parviflora and 27 more. (GBIF Backbone)
Under another author Annona reticulata Sieber and Annona reticulata Sieber ex A.DC. is an older name of this species, not Annona reticulata, a species of the reference; Annona squamosa Vell. is an older name of this species, not Annona squamosa, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 11 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (9 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)climate answeredasked 2026-10-21climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 6.00_-75.000, lapse-corrected -417 m at 6.5 °C/kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Annona mucosa Jacq. (the item's: IPNI 306580-2, POWO 72259-1)wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22inat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 172 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.






