Wild custard-apple

Annona senegalensis, the wild custard apple or African custard apple, is a deciduous shrub or small tree of the soursop family, usually 2 to 6 m tall but occasionally reaching 11 m, with a low, spreading, often gnarled crown and grey, smooth to roughly fissured bark. The alternate leaves are oval to almost circular, leathery, bluish- to greyish-green, and aromatic when crushed, often softly hairy beneath. Solitary or paired flowers, creamy-yellow to greenish with fleshy petals, arise on short stalks. The fruit is a fleshy, lumpy, ovoid syncarp ripening from green to yellow or orange, with sweet, aromatic, edible orange pulp surrounding many seeds. Widespread across the savannas of tropical and subtropical Africa, it grows in woodland, grassland, and along watercourses, and is valued for its edible fruit and many traditional uses.