Annona mucosa

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Annona mucosa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Rollinia sieberi, A. DC. Cachiman Montagne. A small tree first described and figured from the island of Trinidad and erroneously referred by its collector to the common custard-apple, Annona reticulata, to which its fr. and lvs. bear a certain resemblance: lvs. oval-oblong, acute at apex and base, usually 5-6 in. long and 2-3 in. broad, thin, above puberulous with the nerves pilose, beneath paler and more pilose, narrowed at the base into pilose petioles 1/4in. long, some of them at the base of the branches broadly ovate and obtuse, about 1 in. long: peduncles lf .-opposed, 1-fld., 1-1 2/5in. long, bearing 2 small ovate-acute bracteoles, one near the base, the other about the middle: corolla-wings laterally compressed, Linear-oblong, rounded at the apex, diverging, straight or curving slightly upward: fr., according to Pere Duss, usually larger than that of Annona squamosa, the surface divided into pronounced raised squamose areoles rounded at the tips; pulp fleshy, nearly white, melting in the mouth, slightly viscous, with a sugary agreeable flavor. Type collected by Sieber (No. 96), in the De Candolle Herbarium. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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