The Tropical Fruit Forum

Around 1990, I express-mailed non-chilled, fresh Annona species pollen to Crafton Clift in Tennessee, and he express-mailed Asimina pollen to me here in south Florida.    We each mailed two or three times, and pollinated many flowers.  No fruit set occurred. 

Perhaps the community planting was buried less deeply?

Carambola and Bilimbi are the only two species in the Averrhoaceae.  (Doesn't count if you agree with those botanists who lump this family with Oxalidaceae.)

All three of the possibilities that you suggested are viable to consider.

Another possibility is that it was just such a fruit which was seen by the botanist who came up with the species name.  I have often wondered how a species, with far less visible netted pattern on the fruit skin than many of its fellow species, would get named "reticulata."

Sorry I didn't see this posting when it was new.

Black-Pudding-Fruit is one of my favorites.  I do run into a lot of resistance from other persons who don't want to try it.  So I eat it right in front of them.  "Too bad for you!...."

Yes, you have Miracle Fruit.
The "branchlets" on the next plant are probably stipules.  Do you have Antidesma?
The Annona could be scleroderma.  Or a red-fleshed reticulata.

The "not miracle fruit" appears to be a relative of Citrus (with oil cells in the leaves), so probably is the Bael fruit possibility that you already mentioned.

Good job!

Avoid Muriate of Potash/Potassium Chloride.  Potassium Sulfate is better.

Powdery Mildew.

Some of us here believe that ants cause fruit set, presumably by pollinating.

To pollinate a female-stage flower by hand, one does have to force-open a wide-enough opening to stick in a finger, get some "stickum" on the finger, then stick the same finger into a container that one has gathered pollen in, then return the now-pollen-covered finger into the female stage flower.  Brushes don't work well with soursops.  [Bushes do work well with atemoyas, cherimoyas, sugar-apples, etc., that have three petals.]  Soursop pollen is gathered fresh after sunset, and is used immediately.

Very interesting pictures.

More than one Guatemalan person has carefully described to me the delicious, grapefruit-sized fruit of an Annona from the highlands of central-western Guatemala--- decidedly different from any species that I have seen further south in western Guatemala.

As for what is thought to be an ancestral species of Annona reticulata, that is Annona primigenia.