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Annona reticulata
Custard Apple (Chirimoya - Cuba), CorazonFamily: Annonaceae
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.
Similar plants:
- Annona cherimola (Cherimoya, Chirimoya, Custard Apple)
- Annona cherimola x Annona squamosa (Atemoya)
- Annona diversifolia (Annona ilama, Illama, Annona blanca)
- Annona glabra (Pond Apple, Alligator Apple, Monkey Apple)
- Annona haitiensis (Annona)
- Annona hayesii (Wild Cherimoya, Canelo)
- Annona hypoglauca (Wild Cherimoya, Anon cimarron)
- Annona maritima, Rollinia maritima (Aratikum, Quaresma)
- Annona montana (Mountain Soursop, Wild Custard Apple, Guanabana de monte, Wild Soursop)
- Annona muricata (Soursop, Guanabana, Graviola, Korosol, Corosol)
Link to this plant:
https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/annona_reticulata.htm
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