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they come from Hawaii.... to lazy to google the name....They are have a texture of Jeloo... yes just like Jello.... has individual fruitlets similar to Pomegranate but a little larger and different in shape with a seed in each one...very sour and acidic with a flavor reminiscent of lime with a tiny bit of sweetness....not much at all.....
Overall terrible fruit but beautiful exotic look, color, interior and exterior.....shame the taste fails to compare.
They don't come from Hawaii. Originally they come from Africa. The real name is African Horned Melon. The New Zealanders changed the name for marketing purposes to kiwano. Several years ago there was a big push to export them from New Zealand to USA, but it didn't go over very well. They were very expensive and most people were disappointed in the taste. I think they made a mistake marketing it as a fruit. It really tastes more like a vegetable, namely cucumber, to which it is closely related. The lime green gelatinous juice is good squeezed onto a salad or used as a base for salad dressing. As other people pointed out, it can easily take over your garden and become invasive, especially in tropical climates. The whole plant is very poky with spines. Its good qualities are that it is very productive, the fruit keeps very well, and it does not get stung by fruitfly, unlike cucumber. A good alternative for areas that can't grow cucumber due to fruit flies.
at this point in time, you have the nicest Annona fruit basket in the continental USA!
cangrejoulations!nice assortment! love the colors.
here is the dream team of anonnas only in Socal can you have all of these ripening at the same time
cangrejo sugar apple, calostro&birula atemoyas, Genova red ilama and in the center Helmut cherimoya
Bully, I dont have nothing against you, but you are a bit wrong about trying to change it's name here in the forum... maybe you are right this is an english speaking forum, but here we are people from South América, chirimoya is native from Perú, and the native people calls it just chirimoya, as we do it here and in many other countries (millon of people calling it chirimoya)... also at Spain, Portugal and maybe many other non american countries...
by the way: dont you know why did you (the english speaking people) changed/corrupted its wording to "cherimoya"? I mean, historically
Can we plwase change the title of the thread to "cherimoya". As it reads now, chirimoya, most would be referring to it as a custard apple, or A. reticulata, when we are in fact referring to a cherimoya, or A. cherimola.
Is the heavy price tag for some fig cuttings worth the money? The Col de Dame blanc cuttings seem to go for lots of money.
