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Annona reticulata Family: Annonaceae Custard Apple (Chirimoya - Cuba), Corazon Origin: West Indies to Central America & South Mexico Season: Late Winter to Spring. Erect growing tree, rounded to spreading, leaves 4" to 8" long to 2" wide with conspicuous veins and pungent-smelling. Flowers in drooping clusters, which are fragrant, inconspicuous, and never fully open. Compound fruit 4" to 6" in diameter, roundish to heart-shaped to irregular. Tough, thin skin may be yellow to brown to red when ripe. Flesh is thick creamy-white and custard-like. Red fruits sometimes have pink flesh or red lines running through the flesh. Taste varies, best are sweet, juicy with a distinctive flavor. Tree is fast growing under favorable conditions, responds well to mulching, organic soil, fertilization and irrigation through long drought periods. When fully ripe the stem and attached core can be pulled out easily and flesh spooned out as is. Link to this plant: http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/annona_reticulata.htm

ripe fruit flesh - unbelievable flavor