Annona macroprophyllata

Annona macroprophyllata subsp. var.
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Annona diversifolia, Safford. Ilama. Ilamatzapotl. Small tree with brownish-gray, aromatic, longitudinally furrowed bark; young growth glabrous, with prominent lf.-scars bordered with a margin of pale rufous hairs: Lvs. thin, membranaceous, glabrous, variable in form, those near the base of the branchlets broadly elliptical and rounded at the base, those higher up oblanceolate, rounded at the apex and acute or cunéate at the base, the largest 4-5½ inches long and 1½-2 inches broad with petioles exceeding ½ in. length: peduncles long and slender, recurved, glabrous, issuing from 2 sub-orbicular, lf.-like, amplexicaul bracts at the base of the branchlets; fl.-buds obpyriform, calyx-divisions broadly ovate or triangular, terminating at the points in a tuft of ferrugineous hairs; outer petals linear-oblong, swollen at the base and concave within, sparsely rusty-pubescent on the outside; inner petals minute, pubescent on the back and bearing 2 rudimentäry pollen-sacs; carpels distinct, glabrous near the base, rufous hirtellous above, at length growing together into a compound fr. or syncarpium: fr. large, conoid or broadly ovoid with an axis of about 6 in. and a diam. of 5 in., clothed with dense grayish felt-like tomentum and when mature usually bearing stout thick protuberances directed toward the apex, but these sometimes suppressed; pulp edible, cream-colored or rose-tinted; seeds hard, smooth and nutlike, golden brown or tan-colored. Mts. and foot-hills west coast of Mex. to Salvador.—The fr. is offered for sale in the markets of Colima and Acapulco. It is described by American Consul Marion Letcher, stationed at Acapulco, as shaped like a pineapple cheese, with delicious pink-tinted pulp; and Samuel E. Magill, American Consul at Guadalajara, states that the frs. grown on the side of the volcanos of Colima and Cerro Grande are of unusually fine quality. This species has been intro. into S. Fla. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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