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Cymbopetalum mayanum is a tropical forest tree from Central America and southeastern Mexico, in the custard apple family. It is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so care advice here is general and mainly relevant to growing it in a warm, humid tropical climate.
Cymbopetalum mayanum is a species of flowering plant in family Annonaceae. The specific epithet mayanum refers to the Mayan region in which it is indigenous, specifically the Petén lowland forests of Guatemala and the Atlantic moist forests of Honduras. It grows as a tree, and may be threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation. It is native to Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and southeastern Mexico.
Common names for C. mayanum include Mayan cymbopetalum, huevo de toro, muk, anona de montaña, banana, guanabano, guinellito, guineo, gunchuch, mata boni, mataboni, naguate, sufricaya, tulmax, chikinte, and naguate
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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.
