Annona lutescens

[Vlk]

Hi guys! May I ask if anyone has any info on annona lutescens? How does this plant looks like, how the fruit looks like, where does these species comes from etc.? I tried to find some info on Google, but there is almost nothing!

Take care and thank you in advance for any information. :-)

[Sven]

It looks like it is a synonym for A. reticulata.  Try searching for that and you should be able to find lots of info.

http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2640923

[AlexRF]

There is disagreement on Annona lutescens, Version 1: this is a synonym Annona reticulata (custard apple, condessa); Version 2: this is a separate species, occurring only in Central America (http://eol.org/data_objects/21102893).
I base that on Version 2 and this link http://ucr.ucr.edu/arboles_nombresespecie.php?numero=19 . Let's call it Amarilla. "Natural" Squamosa fruit is green (even mature). Mexican-Guatemalan Amarilla is yellow, as I can see on the photo. Form of the fruit and its scales is also slightly different from the cultural "common" squamosa. However I do not exclude that mezoamerican Amarilla - one of the ancestors of Annona squamosa. Like a "wild" squamosa... This is just my personal hypothesis!

[Vlk]

Thanks for your replies guys! :-)
The thing is I got few annona grafts from my friend to graft them on rootstock of annona cherimoya. One of them is the mentioned a. lutescens, according to my friend. The graft has red-coloured buds and fresh/young sprouts. When I cut into the graft or leaf, I smell very distinct smell, quite simillar to a fig tree. I never came across this when handling annona species. Do you think it could be either a. reticulata or a. squamosa ancestor?

[AlexRF]

It's unlikely your friend has a Guatemalan Annona "Amarillo". You probably have a graft of Annona reticulata, compare with the photos in the net.

[AlexRF]

Vlk,
somewhere in the Czech Republic is growing this plant:
http://www.about-garden.com/foto/en/12392
http://www.about-garden.com/a/en/72-landscape-architecture-contact/
Hana Vymazalova probably knows the location and origin this plant. It's not like Annona reticulata. It would be interesting to see the picture of fruit or even flowers from this plant ... Without this identification is practically impossible.

[Guanabanus]

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.

[AlexRF]

Har,
How would motivate them to take photos or even better to get seeds? I am willing to participate in the financing.
I agree about A. primigenia.

Did you got my PM of 27 October?