The wood is soft, fibrous and useful only as fuel. It is occasionally planted in southern Florida and has been introduced into Malaya and the Philippines. When fully ripe and soft, the pulp is edible and some specimens are of fair quality and have been made into jelly or wine. Fishermen fashion the light, corklike wood into floats. The leaf decoction is a common, multipurpose folk remedy in the Netherlands Antilles, Mexico and South America.
Seedlings are useful as rootstock for other Annona species in wet soils.