Annona reticulata L.
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Authority
Popenoe, Frederick W. 1924. Economic fruit-bearing plants of Ecuador. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-ix, 101-134. pl. 34-49.
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Family
Annonaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - This is the bullock-heart or custard-apple of English-speaking countries, inferior in quality to several other species of Annona, but nevertheless common in many parts of the Tropics. The tree is commonly 6 to 7.5 meters high. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 10 to 15 cm. in length, and glabrate. The flowers, which are borne in small clusters upon the new branchlets, are about 2.5 cm. long. The fruit is commonly heart-shaped, but it may be conical, oval, or irregular inform. It weighs from 100 grams to more than a kilogram; the surface is smooth, usually reddish yellow or reddish brown in the ripe fruit, and divided by impressed lines into 5 or 6-angled areas. The flesh, which contains numerous brown seeds the size of a small bean, is milk-white, granular near the thin akin, and sweet, even insipid in flavor.
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Common Names
Anona, bullock-heart, custard-apple