The original home of the sugar apple is unknown. It is commonly cultivated in tropical South America, not often in Central America, very frequently in North Mexico, the West Indies, Bahamas and Bermuda, and occasionally in North London.
The sugar apple is not particular as to soil and has performed well on sand, oolitic limestone and heavy loam with good drainage. Water-logging is intolerable. The tree is shallow-rooted and doesn’t need deep soil. Irrigation water containing over 300 ppm chlorine has done the tree no harm.