Here are some of the cherimoyas I'm lucky enough to eat while in season. Unfortunately, I can only identify less than a handful and not all of identified cultivars are pictured. Can others familiar with annonas, especially Cherimoyas, help put a name on these unknowns? I consider fruit taste description on hints, notes, under & over tones of anything other than the fruit itself to be an art on top of very well developed palettes. Unfortunately I don't think I have either but will try my best to describe how these taste so bear with me.
#1 - not too sweet, compared to others here I'd say it's bland and washed out taste.
(35 seeds collected)
#2 - sweet, slightly acidic but not as rich and creamy as #5. Light, refreshing, good eat.
(25 seeds collected)
#3 - thin downy skin, very sweet, firm chewy flesh is light pink in color. Very good cherimoya but short shelf life, must not allow overripe or the flesh near the skin turns a darker shade of pink, hardens up, loses flavor and becomes unenjoyable. Sadly, I always seem to let several of these sit longer than needed, much of the outer flesh had to be removed and thrown away. Originally I thought this was
Selma from several online pictures of the flesh, but none of which are close to half the size of the ones I got, and much more seeds than mine as well.
(26 seeds collected -only half the seeds were collected, will have more soon)
#4 - Yet to be eaten...
#5 - if you like tart fruits and like cherimoya, this is it for you - thick skin that could be peeled like a mango, lots of acidity, sweet, rich & creamy, very complex in flavor. I believe this variety is
Chaffey.
(59 seeds collected)
#6 - Yet to be eaten... both of these came from the same tree but may have been multi-grafted, hence the slight difference in appearances. Also one of the #6's (fruit on the right) turned out to be a dud because it didn't have the citrus & pineapple undertones I noticed from previous tasting. We'll see how the fruit on the left turns out.
#7 - larger fruit on the right. As it turns out, both fruits in the picture are of the same kind. Very good eat, though I let them sit too long. I don't have a scale to weigh it, I'm also terrible at guestimating weight so we'll never know how heavy. But for size, it's sitting on a normal sheet of 8.5'x11' paper.
#8 - not quite as large on the left. Sweet, little acidity & juicy. Skin so thin, you could peel it like a peach though thinner and even more delicate. Does not have an intense or complex cherimoya flavor but very pleasant & easy eating. My 1.5yr old ate 1/4 of this fruit for dinner last night.
(40 seeds collected)
#7 cut open
#8 cut open
#9 - Yet to be eaten -
Whaley - a very light subacid, very sweet cherimoya that's complex in flavor. Flesh firmer than most other varieties as you can probably tell from the opened fruit. These two fruits were picked from the same branch of the same tree, yet one looking much smoother than the other. Could this be a result of cross pollination? Either way, they tasted exactly the same, EXCELLENT. The fruits were eaten 1.5 month ago so all seeds got misplaced somewhere somehow...
Misc - all the runts in a miscellaneous pile, they're all pretty darn good, bite size too
(20 something seeds so far)
I will update #4, 6, 7 & 9 as they come along. All seeds are available FREE-for-Postage, first come first serve. "
Future" is actually first in line but there should be enough for many.
Topic: unknown Cherimoyas needing IDs - please help (updated 3/19/12) (Read 5340 times)