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[[File:Custard apple or Bullock's heart (Annona reticulata L.); fru Wellcome V0042682.jpg|thumb|Custard apple: fruiting branch with sections of fruit and seeds.]]

'''Custard apple''' is a common name for several fruits and may refer to [[Annonaceae]], the custard apple family,<ref>{{ITIS |id=18092 |taxon=Annonaceae |access-date=18 March 2008}}</ref> which includes the following species referred to as custard apples:
*''[[Annona cherimola]]'', a tree and fruit also called cherimoya<ref>{{GRIN | ''Annona cherimola'' | 3479 | access-date = 2008-04-21}}</ref>
*''[[Annona muricata]]'', a tree and fruit also called guanábana or soursop<ref>{{GRIN | ''Annona muricata'' | 3479 | access-date = 2023-11-16}}</ref>
*''[[Annona reticulata]]'', a tree and fruit also called custard apple, ox heart or bullock's heart
*''[[Annona senegalensis]]'', a tree and fruit called wild custard-apple<ref>{{GRIN | ''Annona senegalensis'' | 3501 | access-date = 2008-04-21}}</ref>
*''[[Annona squamosa]]'', a tree and fruit also called sugar apple or sweetsop<ref>{{GRIN | ''Annona squamosa'' | 3503 | access-date = 2008-04-21}}</ref>
*''[[Asimina triloba]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Custard-apple |url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Custard-apple |website=TheFreeDictionary.com}}</ref> the "pawpaw", a deciduous tree, with a range from southern Ontario to Texas and Florida, that bears the largest edible fruit native to the United States or Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pawpaw Description and Nutritional Information |url=http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/pawpaw/cooking.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719225834/http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/pawpaw/cooking.htm |archive-date=2011-07-19 |access-date=2011-07-14}}</ref>

Custard apple may also refer to ''[[White sapote|Casimiroa edulis]]'', in the rue or citrus family, [[Rutaceae]].

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