Annona Flowers - 4 Different Types

[fruitlovers]

From top left: Atemoya (Annona cherimola X squamosa), Pond Apple (Annona glabra), Biriba (Rollinia deliciosa)
Bottom: Poshte (Annona scleroderma)

[EvilFruit]

What we learn from this picture is, Don't Judge by Appearances. 

BTW did you have a chance to taste Annona scleroderma ?.

Thanks Oscar

[fruitlovers]

What we learn from this picture is, Don't Judge by Appearances. 

BTW did you have a chance to taste Annona scleroderma ?.

Thanks Oscar

Not yet. Have been bagging, but guess too late, as chalcid wasp still getting them. Will try to be more on top of it this season.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

very pretty photo!

funny I just took some pics of A. scleroderma flowers at fruit and spice park!

looks like their tree could fruit.

also..I was surprised to see the flowers look like sugar apple I thought they'd look like guanabana....also surprised how they formed on the older portions of the branches....not near the tips

[kh0110]

How about this one, a Cherimoya flower (MacPherson) with pinkish stigma? However, the fruitlet turns out to be of normal green color.

[ScottR]

Very nice Oscar, amazing variety in flowers of Annona's

[fruitlovers]

very pretty photo!

funny I just took some pics of A. scleroderma flowers at fruit and spice park!

looks like their tree could fruit.

also..I was surprised to see the flowers look like sugar apple I thought they'd look like guanabana....also surprised how they formed on the older portions of the branches....not near the tips

Hi Adam, the scleroderma flowers all along the branch, from tip all the way to the trunk:

[Coconut]

very pretty photo!

funny I just took some pics of A. scleroderma flowers at fruit and spice park!

looks like their tree could fruit.

also..I was surprised to see the flowers look like sugar apple I thought they'd look like guanabana....also surprised how they formed on the older portions of the branches....not near the tips

Hi Adam, the scleroderma flowers all along the branch, from tip all the way to the trunk:

Thanks Oscar it give me great hope my 20 feet tree should be popping flowers like your soon, its a three year old seedlings & I have three trees from three area of central America.  Adam they do look similar to sugar apple.  I grew the trees next to my Whitman fiberless thinking that Posthe's leaves look close to soursop that I maybe I can hybridized, but Oscar flowers show closed to sugar apple so I will try that hybridize A. Squamosa Green Diamond x A. scleroderma & see if that catch.
So far chalcid wasp have been non existing for me in S. Florida, squirrels are my number one issues with Annonas in general.   

[Guanabanus]

Apparently roof rats eat Annonas too.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

Oscar,

nice photos...I think the tree at fruit and spice was not as happy....it's flowers were less numerous, and not as close to the branch tips.

I should have said, I was surprised by how much it flowers on the older portions of the tree

I love the way the flowers smell..sweet wet paint!!!

[Radoslav]

Years ago I bought seeds marked as annona scleroderma /I think, from tradewindsfruit/ this year the tree finally has flowers, but it looks like it has no longitudinal prominence petals typical for annona scleroderma, but flowers look like those of annona reticulata.




 

[Guanabanus]

Yes, Radoslav, those do look like A. reticulata.