A tropical fruit that’s yellow as the sun when ripe, delicately sweet (as I imagine honey tinged with tropical grass tastes like) and covered in prickly, swordlike leaves (capped by an equally thorny crown).

Known in English as soursop, belonging to the custard apple family of fruit, which includes the cherimoya and sugar apple (atis). 

Mangoes are grown in most regions of the Philippines, and, after bananas and pineapples, rank third amongst fruit crops valued most in local and international markets.

The átis, or sugar-apple, is a new-world fruit now cultivated across the Philippines.