Annona edulis
(Triana & Planch.) H. Rainer
Edible annona
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Description
A tree. It grows from 2 to 20 m high. The trunk is 20 cm across. The leaves are narrowly oval and 11-35 cm long by 5-20 cm wide. The flowers are green and turn yellow. The fruit are oval and 2-6 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They are green and turn yellow when ripe. The seeds are 6-8 mm long by 3-4 mm wide.
Edible Uses
Fruit - raw. The white pulp has a sweet flavour. The pulp is used to make a marmalade.The yellow, subglobose to largely ovoid or ellipsoid fruit is composed of 40 - 100 carpels, each containing a single seed around 6 - 8mm long.
Distribution
It is a tropical plant. It grows from sea level to about 800 m altitude. In Columbia it grows from 100-1,400 m above sea level.
Where It Grows
Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia*, Ecuador, Peru, South America, Venezuela,
Cultivation
Plants can flower and produce fruit all year round. A very variable species varying especially in fruit and leaf shape.
Synonyms
Also Known As
Anonilla, Anon de monte, Araticum-do-mato, Mapaso, Obahue, Sacha anonilla, Shikapach, Tucuragua, Yamkua, Yugkua, Yukuanim
References (11)
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- Flores, Y., 2018, Arboles nativos de la Region Ucayili. Estacion Experimental Agragia Pucallpa. Pucallpa Peru, 375 p. p 41
- Grandtner, M. M. & Chevrette, J., 2013, Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press p 36
- Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 751 (As Rollinia edulis)
- Kew Plants of the World onLine
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- Lopez-Diago, D. & Garcia, N., 2021, Wild edible fruits of Colombia. Biota ColomBiana 22 (2) p 29 (As Rollinia edulis)
- Maas, P. J. M., et al, 1992, Rollinia, Flora Neotropica Vol. 57. p 94 (As Rollinia edulis)
- Martin, F. W., et al, 1987, Perennial Edible Fruits of the Tropics. USDA Handbook 642 p 81 (As Rollinia edulis)
- Murillo-A, J., 2001, Annonaceae of Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2(1): 49-51 (As Rollinia edulis)
- Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia.
- Torre, de la L., et al, 2008, Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador. Herbario QCA. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p 167 (As Rollinia edulis)
