“…While A. cherimola (cherimoya), A. muricata (soursop), A. squamosa (sweetsop), and A. x atemoya are cultivated in more tropical regions and are very well accepted for consumption in natura, as juices or jams (Braga Sobrinho, 2014), the expansion of the Annonaceae market in Brazil depends either on the development of research to extend the shelf life of these fruits, allowing them to be processed and reach markets more distant from the productive areas (São José et al, 2014), or on the development of more marketable varieties, which could help to reduce the economic dependency on the monocultures. Fruits from Annonaceae species in the Brazilian Cerrado have been transformed into cereal bars and liquors (Oliveira, 2015(Oliveira, , 2019, and several species were evaluated for propagation by cuttings (Scaloppi Junior and Martins, 2014). Specimens of A. rugulosa and A. neosalicifolia have a very similar habit, height (up to 20 m), and very similar leaf shape (Záchia and Irgang, 1996), differing by a characteristic glossiness in the abaxial surface of A. rugulosa and the shape of galls in the leaf, which are characteristic for each species.…”