Custard apple, a common name, can refer to:
- Custard-apple, also called bear's heart, the fruit of the tree Annona reticulata.
- The custard-apple tree itself, Annona reticulata
The term may also refer to:
- Annonaceae - the custard apple or soursop family.
- Annona cherimola, a tree and fruit also called cherimoya.
- Annona squamosa, a tree and fruit also called sugar apple or sweetsop
- Annona senegalensis, a tree and fruit called wild custard-apple
- Casimiroa edulis, also called white sapote, a fruit related to the citrus.
Famous quotes containing the words custard and/or apple:
“God’s always got a custard pie up his sleeve.”
—Margaret Forster, British screenwriter, Peter Nichols, and Silvio Narizzano. Georgy (Lynn Redgrave)
“A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.”
—Edward A. Boyden, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)