Annona purpurea is an edible fruit and medicinal plant in the Annonaceae family.

Its common names include soncoya, sincuya, and cabeza de negro.

It is a small to medium tree reaching a maximum of 6 to 10 metres (20 to 33 ft).

[3] The fruit is rounded, 15 to 20 centimeters wide, and covered with a felt-textured brown skin that is hard to cut open when ripe.

The soncoya is fairly obscure among Annonas; the fruit is of indifferent quality and has not attracted wide cultivation.