Enjoy the fresh, fragrant, and sweet creamy white flesh of Custard apple by growing Custard plant easily at your home.
Custard apple is a deciduous perennial fruit plant in the Annonaceae family. Branches with light brown bark. Leaves are thin, simple, alternate, and occur singly. Flowers are Solitary or in short lateral clusters. Fruits are aggregate and soft fruits from the numerous and loosely united pistils of a flower.
Custard Apple Benefits:
- The bark of custard apple consists of astringent properties and tannins, which helps for making herbal supplements for the treatment of numerous types of cancer and tumors
- It contains significant fiber, which protects the colon membrane by warding off toxic substance from the gut, decreasing the risk of liver and colon risk
- Custard apple consists of a well-balanced ratio of sodium and potassium which helps to regulates and controls blood pressure fluctuations in the body
- Aid in fighting free-radical destruction brought on to the cells
- Custard apple is a wonderful source of B complex vitamins, which controls the GABA neuron chemical levels in the brain
- Sugar-apple is high in energy, an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese, a good source of thiamine and vitamin B6
- The ripe fruits are edible
- The sweet fruits are used in preserves, drinks, ice cream, puddings, etc..
- Note- Please consults your health advisor before application or consuming of plants or plant parts
Planting And Care
- There must be adequate moisture in the soil to encourage vegetative growth and blooms that occur on the new branches.
- The tree should be watered every 2 to 4 weeks during the period of low growth and every 3 to 5 days while it is flowering and setting fruits.
- Sugar apple is normally fairly low maintenance and quite easy to grow, as long as a level of basic care needs to provide throughout the year.
- Growing sugar apple trees requires weed management.
- the sugar apple is susceptible to wind damage. Therefore, it should be planted in a location that is sheltered from the wind.
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