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Title: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: elouicious on May 04, 2022, 08:37:40 PM
Hello Annona Lovers-

On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic I managed to sneak away from the scheduled activities to do a bit of fruit hunting around the resorts and happened upon an Annona tree-

It appeared to be growing submerged in salt water, (we were on the beach) which led me to believe it is Annona glabra but the one (past) ripe fruit I found was yellow which I did not think was true of glabra. The seeds also appear to be white around the outside with a dark center which also seems to be different from what I have found online. When I asked the people around about it all they would tell me was that they didn't serve it at the hotel.

First person to ID gets a pack of 5 seeds


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Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: Polypterus on May 04, 2022, 09:03:57 PM
I'm at an absolute loss. Looks like glabra to me.
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: JoeP450 on May 04, 2022, 09:53:22 PM
Glabra
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: elouicious on May 04, 2022, 10:11:01 PM
Thanks Joe!

Want seeds?
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: JoeP450 on May 04, 2022, 10:34:44 PM
No thanks here in FL the glabra are endemic, but the annona urbaniana seeds I got from digi recently are sprouting 👍

-Joe
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: digigarden on May 05, 2022, 12:49:07 AM
Quote from: JoeP450 on May 04, 2022, 10:34:44 PM
No thanks here in FL the glabra are endemic, but the annona urbaniana seeds I got from digi recently are sprouting 👍

-Joe

that is some good news man :)
was starting to worry because you know these come from a seed bank so idk how long they stored them.
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: digigarden on May 05, 2022, 12:51:10 AM
The local pond apple is known as bagá. Nice find man it's not as common as in FL here
Also the local type seems to be a bit less vigorous.
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: elouicious on May 05, 2022, 10:02:28 AM
Awesome thanks dude!

I was wandering through groves of mango and cashew and then these suckers popped out at me!

I will plant a bunch of seeds in the keys
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: digigarden on May 06, 2022, 10:26:22 AM
how was the taste?
Title: Re: Wild Annona from Dominican Republic
Post by: elouicious on May 06, 2022, 10:48:40 AM
It was too ripe for me to taste but it smelled like pineapple, texture seemed a bit gritty