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Rollinia mucosa, Baill. (Annona mucosa, Jacq.). CachiMan Morveux. A  
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Rollinia sieberi, A. DC. Cachiman Montagne. A small tree first  
small tree first described by Jacquin from specimens growing
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described and figured from the island of Trinidad and erroneously
spontaneously in the forests of Martinique, and said by him to be
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referred by its collector to the common custard-apple, Annona  
rarely cult. In habit it bears a close resemblance to the common  
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reticulata, to which its fr. and lvs. bear a certain resemblance: lvs.  
custard-apple, Annona reticulata. Lvs. oblong, pointed at the apex and  
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oval-oblong, acute at apex and base, usually 5-6 in. long and 2-3 in.
base: corolla gamopetalous in the form of a roundish body from which 3
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broad, thin, above puberulous with the nerves pilose, beneath paler
oblong lobes spread outward in such a way that it not inaptly
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and more pilose, narrowed at the base into pilose petioles 1/4in.
represents a tricorn hat: areoles of fr. gibbous (convex) not
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long, some of them at the base of the branches broadly ovate and
papillose nor aculeate; fleshy pulp very viscous and not very well
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obtuse, about 1 in. long: peduncles lf .-opposed, 1-fld., 1-1 2/5in.
flavored.—R. Sieberi has been referred to this species, but Pere Duss,
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long, bearing 2 small ovate-acute bracteoles, one near the base, the
in his Flora of the French Antilles has kept the two species distinct.
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other about the middle: corolla-wings laterally compressed,
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Linear-oblong, rounded at the apex, diverging, straight or curving
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slightly upward: fr., according to Pere Duss, usually larger than that
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of Annona squamosa, the surface divided into pronounced raised
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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.
 
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