Annona cherimola Mill.
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Annona cherimola Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8, 1, ANN–ANN (1768)
Annona cherimola Mill.
Nomenclature
Mill.
Mill.
1768
ANN–ANN
ICN
Annona cherimola Mill.
species
Annona cherimola
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Vernacular names
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Annona cherimola Mill.
Evergreen or semi-deciduous, hairy shrub to c. 4 m high, forming large thickets by suckering. Bark tough and fibrous. Shoots tomentose. Petiole 5-15 mm long. Lamina (3)-6-21-(26) × (1.5)-3-12-(18) cm, ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or obovate, glaucous and densely hairy beneath, becoming sparingly so above; base broadly cuneate; apex rounded to obtuse. Fls usually solitary, sometimes 2 together, opposite upper lf axils. Pedicels 6-10 mm long, brown-tomentose. Calyx 2-3 mm long; lobes brown-tomentose. Outer 3 petals c. 2.5 × 0.8 cm, thick, fleshy, green, tomentulose outside; inner 3 petals minute. Filaments very short; connectives densely silky hairy. Carpels brown-tomentose. Fr. ± segmented, broadly ovate-cordate, c. 8 cm diam.
Taxonomic concepts
Historic biostatus
Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Subtropicals, Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 15,16,17
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1 January 2000
29 November 2022