The fruits vary in shape heart shaped spherical oblong or irregular. The fruit about 100mm in diameter has a creamy juicy and delicious flesh according to some tasting like lemon meringue pie.
The Best Stage To Harvest Custard Apples A Tasty And Healthy Fruit
Custard apple also known as seetaphal in india is a subtropical fruit belonging to the annonacea family.
Custard apple fruit tree. Custard apple tree growing tree of the genus annona also known as annona reticulata or red annona. It was also introduced into tropical africa in the 17th century. Custard apple is a common name for a fruit and the tree which bears it annona reticulata.
Although they are sometimes described as tasting like a cross between a papaya and an apple either way they are sweet when ripe. A tropical to sub tropical plant the custard apple is a small evergreen tree semi deciduous in cooler climates. Fruits within 4 years from seed.
The fruit grows on a small deciduous tree and is known by different names worldwide. Description custard apple trees grow on an attractive small to medium sized tree that is similar in habit to the cherimoya. This is our very first fruit but the tree has been flowering for the past 2yrs.
Custard apple tree evergreen perennial but in a cold weather become deciduous can grow in tropics mediterranean or subtropical climate and growing in hardiness zone 10. Both in tree and in fruit the custard apple annona reticulata l is generally rated as the mediocre or ugly duckling species among the prominent members of this genus. The size ranges from 7 centimetres 28 in to 12 centimetres 47 in depending on the cultivar.
Custard apple is widely grown in india and south east asia it is most widely known as a sugar apple sweetsop sweetsop anon atis sitafal sitaphal seetha payam sitappalam sharifa sarifa araticum the buddhas head fruit etc. The taste is much as the name suggests a custard taste with a hint of apple. Seems to have some trouble self pollinating so i may have to assist next time.
A relative of the cherimoya this plant has its origins in tropical america. Custard apple tree or annona squamosa is a deciduous fruit tree in the annona family and is native to the west indies and was brought to central america and southern mexico. The open spreading canopy is made up of long drooping branches that can often touch the ground.
Seed selected from extremely sweet and flavoursome fruit with firm white flesh and few seeds. It grows regularly in the bahamas and southern florida. Dwarf custard apple tropic sun grafted 810 amandas edible fruits update.
The tree is evergreen perennial in mediterranean to sub tropical climates and semi deciduous in cooler climates reaching 10m in height. The fruit is around 8 centimeters in diameter and has a sweet and delicious taste.
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