Annona is a small-sized tree, grows to about 15 to 30 toes tall with dense foliage, and bears fruits after 4-5 years of plantation. Of their pure habitat, cherimoya flowers are pollinated by bugs (Coleoptera, Hemiptera). Nevertheless, within the cultivated farms, synthetic pollination is completed at massive to acquire good yields.
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| Custard apple and Soursop (Guanabana). |
The fruit is irregularly oval or conical in form that includes leathery dark-green pores and skin with polygonal indentations. It measures about 10-15 cm in size and 10 cm in diameter and weighs about 350 g to 500 g. In some varieties, they weigh a number of kilos.
Ripe fruits flip pale inexperienced to mild brown and emanate a candy, aromatic aroma that may be appreciated from a distance. Contained in the flesh is creamy with a number of easy, shiny, black seeds embedded in it. Seeds and pores and skin are inedible.
Custard apple (Annona reticulata) is one other carefully associated fruit generally grown in India, Pakistan, and different South Asian areas. It options easy, conical indentations.
Sugar apple or atis fruit (A. squamosa) options easy conical protuberances (carpels) over its floor. It has an identical style and taste as cherimoya; nonetheless, on its inside, it accommodates comparatively much less flesh however extra seeds for its measurement.
Atemoya is hybrid of cherimoya (A. cherimola) and sugar apple (A. squamosa). It has higher temperature and humidity tolerance, appropriate for cultivation in tropical climates.
Guanabana (Annona muricata), often known as soursop (graviola), is far bigger than cherimoya. It’s simply distinguished by its measurement, spiky floor, and fibrous, tart flesh.