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Annona montana
Also called Gottasop, Mountain Soursop, Wild Soursop
Mountain soursop (Annona montana) is a tropical tree grown for its fibrous, sour, aromatic fruit and used as a rootstock for other annonas. It needs warm, frost-free conditions and is slightly hardier than soursop (Annona muricata), tolerating brief drops to about -4 °C when mature.
Annona montana, the mountain soursop, is a tree and its edible fruit in the Annonaceae family native to Central America, the Amazon, and islands in the Caribbean. It has fibrous fruits. A. montana may be used as a rootstock for cultivated Annonas.
A. montana grows wild at altitudes from 0 metres (0 ft) to 650 metres (2,130 ft). Its natural distribution is:
Cherimoya · Annona coriacea · Fleshyflower Annona · Pond apple · Wild cherimoya of Jalisco · Ilama · Sugar Apple · Soursop · Annona nutans · Annona paludosa · Annona · Custard apple
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Annona montana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
