sweetsop

Its botanical name means corn or food, and the genus includes such edibles as the custard-apple, soursop and sweetsop.

Annona squamosa (also called sugar-apple or sweetsop) is a species of Annona native to the tropical Americas and widely grown in Colombia, El Salvador, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Philippines.

As well as unscheduled visits from bats and mutant bugs, a stay at Kapawi also offers the chance to meet the Achuar, and one early afternoon we trailed through a rough garden of manioc, pimento, sweetsop and tobacco to a clearing of flat scorched earth.