Annona purpurea
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Annona purpurea is an edible fruit and medicinal plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America. Its common names include soncoya, sincuya, and cabeza de negro.
Description
It is a small tree reaching a maximum of Script error: No such module "convert".. It is deciduous with hairy leaves and large, strong-scented flowers.[1] Its pollen is shed as permanent tetrads.[2]
The fruit is rounded, Template:Cvt wide, and covered with a felt-textured brown skin that is hard to cut open when ripe. The surface of the fruit has hooklike projections and superficially resembles a durian. It has many seeds which have a germination time of 1 to 6 months. Trees take about 1 to 3 years to bear and can be container grown. This species is closely related to the cherimoya, the sugar-apple and other species of Annona. The soncoya is fairly obscure in the genus; the fruit is of indifferent quality and has not attracted wide cultivation.[1] The fruit has a texture like the soursop which some may describe as stringy or fibrous.
References
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External links
- Annona purpurea at University of Connecticut, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Soncoya at Trade Winds Fruit
- Soncoya at Fruitsinfo.com
- [1] information regarding possible use in medical treatments.
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- Annona
- Trees of the Amazon rainforest
- Tropical fruit
- Crops originating from South America
- Crops originating from Mexico
- Trees of Northern America
- Trees of Belize
- Trees of Costa Rica
- Trees of El Salvador
- Trees of Guatemala
- Trees of Honduras
- Trees of Nicaragua
- Trees of Panama
- Trees of Venezuela
- Taxa named by Martín Sessé y Lacasta
- Taxa named by José Mariano Mociño
- Taxa named by Michel Félix Dunal