Fruit · Medicinal
wild sugar-apple
Annona mucosa Jacq.
Mexico to southern Brazil
Fun factThe flowers smell of yeast during their female phase, an adaptation to beetle pollination, and growers sometimes hand-pollinate to improve fruit set. A single tree can carry 25–50 fruits a year.
A fast-growing, upright tree of the custard-apple family with thin, papery leaves and small greenish-yellow flowers that give off a sweet, yeasty scent to attract the beetles that pollinate them. The knobbly aggregate fruit ripens yellow and is covered in soft pointed protuberances; inside is white, soft, sweet, custard-like pulp around 20–50 seeds. Trees grown from seed can bear within three to four years.
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FamilyAnnonaceae
Spanish nameAnnona Biriba
Also known asRollinia, Biriba, Biribá, Anona
Native toThe humid lowland tropics from central and southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to the Amazon basin and southern Brazil
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
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| — | Orchard | — | 5 July 2019 | Planted | — |
1 of these has no tag yet; it will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.