A large deciduous shrub or small tree. Leaves oblong, lanceolate or elliptic. Flowers fragrant, creamy-yellow to greenish, solitary or in groups of up to 4 in leaf opposed cymes. Fruit globose or ovoid, yellowish green when ripe, embossed with prominent scales. Seeds black.

Anticancer (root and its bark, stem and leaf); antihypertensive and alleviates spasms (root); cardiotonic (leaf).

Sugar apple
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Corydine, glaucine and iso-corydine (root and its bark, tender stem and leaf); alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, camphor, limonene, mallic acid, reticuline, tannin (plant); annonacin, anonaine, asimicin (seed); arginine, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, GABA, lysine, methionine, niacin, pantothenic acid, thiamin, tryptophan (fruit); borneol, friedelin (leaf); bullatacin, bullatacinone (bark)

Head lice removal (seed); for cancerous tumors (bruised leaves and salt combination), administered in acute dysentery and as a snuff to overcome hysteria (bruised leaves). Leaves made into a paste without adding water are applied to unhealthy ulcers and wounds. The leaf decoction is also employed in baths to alleviate rheumatic pain.

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.