Accession #: 199500093
Accession Date: 1995-02-17
Common name: Cherimoya, Custard Apple
Family: Annonaceae
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Country of Origin: Andes of Peru' and Ecuador
Description: The 'Cherimoya', a custard apple; woody tree to 8m high, briefly deciduous with sappy branches and luxuriant leathery leaves 25cm long, dull greem with pale veins, velvety on back; fragrant fleshy flowers 3cm long, directly from woody branches, yellow or brown-tomentose outside, whitish with purple spot inside; followed by large green conical fruit, 12cm or more long, containing large black seed, the skin looking like overlapping scales or knobby warts; the flesh creamy white, tasting like custard or bananas, and is eaten with a spoon; ripening winter into spring. For best success flowers are hand-pollinated. Also known as 'Fruit of the Incas'
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USDA Zone: 9b-11
Source: Terry Webster - 3/94
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