[3] An atemoya is normally heart-shaped or rounded, with pale-green, easily bruised, bumpy skin.

It is very juicy and smooth, tasting slightly sweet and a little tart, reminiscent of a piña colada.

Subsequently, in 1917, Edward Simmons at Miami's Plant Introduction Station successfully grew hybrids that survived a drop in temperature to 26.5 °F (−3.1 °C), showing atemoya's hardiness derived from one of its parents, the cherimoya.

[citation needed] The atemoya, like other Annona trees, bears protogynous, hermaphroditic flowers, and self-pollination is rare.

'Bradley' also produces fair crops without hand pollination, but the fruit has a habit of splitting on the tree.

[7] Atemoyas are sometimes misshapen, underdeveloped on one side, as the result of inadequate pollination.