Annona longiflora


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Read about Annona longiflora in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Annona longiflora, Wats. Wild Cherimoya of Jalisco. A shrub or small tree, 3-10 ft. high; young growth softly pubescent: branches with prominent If .-scars, which are clothed with a marginal collar of plush-like hairs: Lvs. resembling those of A. Cherinola but distinguished when mature by being glabrate or glabrescent between the lateral nerves, which together with the midrib are persistently velvety pubescent, the blades 2-5½ in. long and 1½-3¼ in. broad, elliptical to obovate-elliptical, usually rounded but sometimes acute at the base and rounded at the apex, which is often minutely apiculate: fls. short-peduncled, pubescent, the calyx-divisions deltoid-ovate, clothed on the outside with fine soft hairs, the outer petals leathery, often 2 in. long, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate in shape, cream-colored or whitish, and marked within with a dark purple or blackish spot at the excavated base; inner petals minute (sometimes wanting), ovate, obtuse, finely pubescent; carpels distinct, the ovaries clothed with rufous hairs, and the styles minutely puberulent: fr. conoid or globose-ovate, its surface covered with protuberances or with reticulated aréoles; pulp white, resembling that of A. Cherimola in flavor. Stäte of Jalisco, Mex., especially in vicinity of Guadalajara and Tequila. Intro, into S. Calif., but as yet little known.


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