The sugar-apple, or sweetsop, 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 and, Burmese awzar thee, Indonesia “ Srikaya”’ and atis in the Philippines. It is also known as Shareefa in India and Pakistan and in the Philippines and in Australia.
Height: It is a tree reaching 2 meters to 10 meters
Germination rate: 80 to 90 %
Germination Period: 10 days
Number of seeds: More than 500 seeds
Seed rate: 5 to 6 kg / Acre