I've tried A. Crassiflora on several occasions. It's readily available at the markets in Belo Horizonte when it's in season.
The flavor is intense and has an uncanny resemblance to musk stick lollies.
Seed count is rather high. I enjoyed eating it but it's not the kind of fruit I'd want to eat too often.
Overall I'd give the fruit a 6/10
I think most of us have tried cultivated Annonas like mucosa, muricata, atemoya, cherimoya, squamosa and reticulata. Some of us have tried cultivated rarer species like ilama and soncoya and are positive. We have also argued about which are the best cultivated Annonas and routinely compared varieties.
With semi cultivated species like A,montana and scleriderma and I suppose even A.glabra the consensus seems to be that scleroderma can be pretty good but the other 2 not so much.
With such a great group of fruits not many of us can comment on the wild species and just how good quality their fruit is. Some examples are:
A.crassiflora seems to have a few fans but have any forum members really tried it and can give a good account?
A.salzmanii has positive reviews and if true might be a good one to grow for fruit.
A.cornifolia sometimes gets good reviews and may be worth growing for fruit.
My question is have forum members tried other wild Annona species and can report they have good fruit of reasonable size, flesh yield, taste or even tree productivity and can report they are well worth growing? Which ones are worth targeting by people more interested in trying novel tasty fruit rather than being a stamp collector of species?
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