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ANNONA 



213. Annona reticulata. (XM) 



mose, ovate or triangular, usually flesh-ooloreil or pur- 

 ple and ket>letl on the-out.-iide; fr. variable in shape and 

 appe;irance, sonjetinies eonoiil or heart-shaped, with 

 surface bearing protuberances; sometimes spheroid or 

 ovoid with the surface covereil with eoncaxe or squa- 

 mose U-sl»ai>eil areoles, each bearing a small wart or 

 tubercle; and sometimes quite smooth or with the sur- 

 face having the appearance of putty marked by finger- 

 prints; pulp white, (xiible, i)leasantly acidulous, easily 

 separable from the seeds; seeds usually obovate, 

 obliquely truncate, somewhat compressed, with a thin 



membranous brown 

 testa which is usu- 

 ally more or less 

 wrinkled or pitted, 

 owing to the 

 wrinkknl surface of 

 the inclosed endo- 

 sperm. Andes of 

 Peru and adjacent 

 regions, but natu- 

 ralized at a very 

 early date in Mex. 

 and Cent. Amer. 

 Successfully intro. 

 into S. Calif., 

 Canary Isls., Ma- 

 deira, the mts. of 

 India, and Hawaii. 

 Essentially a sub- 

 tropical plant which 

 does not yield good 

 results in low tropical countries. — Frs. of exquisite 

 flavor are produced on the island of Madeira, where the 

 trees are trained on trellises and are taking the place of 

 grapes in the economy of the island. Excellent results 

 have also been secured in S. Calif. See Cherimoya. 



7. longifldra, Wats. Wild Cherimov.\ of Jalisco. 

 A shrub or small tree, 3-10 ft. high; young growth 

 softly pubescent; branches with prominent If .-sears, 

 which are clothed with a marginal collar of plush-like 

 hairs: Ivs. resembhng those of A. Cherimola but dis- 

 tinguished when mature by being glabrate or glabres- 

 cent between the lateral nerves, which together with 

 the midrib are persistently velvety pubescent, the 

 blades 2-.5K in. long and V/i-iH 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, pubes- 

 cent, 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. contjid or globose-ovate, its surface 

 covered with protuberances or with reticulated areoles; 

 pulp white, resembling that of A. Cherimola in flavor. 

 State of Jalisi-o, Mex., especially in vicinity of Guada- 

 lajara and Tequila. Intro, into S. CaUf., but as yet 

 little known. 



cc. Lvs. not velvety. 



D. Fr. nmoolk or nearly so, its surface divided into angular 

 areoles by imj/ressed lines; pulp tallow-like. 

 8. reticuUta, Linn. (A. longifolia, Mociiio & Sess6). 

 CoMMo.N Clstard-Apple. Bullock's-Heabt. Cora- 



ZON. COROSSOL CffiUR-DE-BffiUF. CORA^AO DE Boi. 



Mamon. Anonas. Anona Colorada. Qcauhtzai-otl. 

 Fig. 213. A deciduoas tree, 1.5-2.5 ft. high with young 

 growth fulvous-pubesoont, at length glabratt!: lvs. 

 approximate, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute at 

 the apex, Cfjnduplicat<;, glabrate, or with the midrib 

 and lateral nerves sparsely pubescent: fls. in extra- 



axillary clusters of several issuing from the new branch- 

 lets, peduncles nodding; outer petals fleshy, oblong- 

 linear, keeled on the inside and excavated at the base, 

 oli\'e-green or yellowish, usually stained within with 

 j)urple and with a dark purple blotch at the base; 

 inner petals very small, scale-like, ovate, acute; carpels 

 distinct, the ovaries covered with pale brown silky hairs, 

 at length uniting to form a solid fr. ; fr. 3-5 in. diam., 

 smooth, with the surface divided into rhomboid or 

 hexagonal areoles by impressed Unes, usually reddish 

 or reddish brown when ripe, or red-cheeked on the 

 sunny side, pulp sweetish but insipid, tallow-Uke and 

 usually granular, adhering closely to the seeds. Trop. 

 Amer.; now widely spread throughout the tropics of 

 both hemispheres. — A robust tree which has spread 

 spontaneously in the forests of the Philippines, the 

 island of Guam and the E. Indies, while its congeners, 

 A. muricata and A. squamosa, occur usually only where 

 planted. It is essentially tropical while the cherimoya, 

 with the smooth-fruited forms of which it has often 

 been confused, is subtropical. Its. fr. is inferior in flavor 

 to both the cherimoya and the sugar-apple {A. squa- 

 jnosa), from the first of which it maybe distinguished by 

 its long, narrow, glabrate lvs., and from the second by 

 its solid, compact fr., as well as its larger lvs. From A. 

 glabra, with which it is also confused, it may be dis- 

 tinguished by its elongate narrow outer petals and 

 its small, dark brown seeds. It is common in the W. 

 Indies and thrives in S. Fla. 



DD. Fr. composed of rounded carpels loosely cohering 

 when ripe, covered with a glaucous bloom; pulp 

 creamy or custard-like. 



9. squamosa, Linn. (A. cinerea, Dunal. A. For- 

 skdhlii, DC. .1. biflora, Mociiio & Sess6). Sugar-Ap- 

 ple. Sweet-Sop. Anon. Atta. Atte. Atis. Pomme- 

 Cannelle. Keschta. Fruta da Condessa. Ahate 

 DE Panuco. Steenappel. Texaltzapotl. Pinha. 

 Fig. 214. A small deciduous tree, 1.5-20 ft. high, with 

 irregularly spreading branches and zigzag branchlets 

 bearing approximate 2-ranked lvs.; young growth 

 pubescent, at length glabrate or clothed with scattered 

 hairs and dotted with lenticels: lvs. conduplicate, 

 resembling those of A. reticulata, but smaller, usually 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly acumi- 

 nate at the apex and acute or cuneate at the base, some- 

 times ovate or elliptical and rounded at the base with a 

 tendency to be asymmetrical, membranaceous, minutely 

 pimctate with both ^-. 



surfaces pale green; /j/ 



sjiarsely hairy at 

 first, at length gla- 

 brate or nearly so, 

 except the petiole, 

 which is pubescent: 

 fls. borne on the 

 young branchlets, 

 closely resembling 

 those of A. reticu- 

 lata, extra-axillary, 

 usually in clusters 

 of 2, 3, or 4, but 

 sometimes solitary; 

 peduncles slender, 

 sparsely and deli- 

 cately pilose, at 

 length glabrate, 

 bearing a minute 

 bracteole below the 

 middle, which ter- 

 minates in a tuft 

 of floccose hairs; 

 outer petals oblong- 

 linear, thick, tri- 

 quetrous, rounded 

 at the apex and 



214. Annona squamosa. (XM) 



