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Help naming this fruit
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Posted by bobntrish Qld (My Page) on Tue, Mar 6, 07 at 18:31
| Can anyone help me naming this fruit? I thought it was a black sapote. However, that is the chocolate pudding fruit, isn't it? ... & this one de3finitely os not that - have a look at the poic on this link.
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o100/Trishnbob/FruitnVeg/
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RE: Help naming this fruit
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| It looks like a soursop - Annona muricata - related to custard apples |
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| Yes I think tonyfromoz is right. Does the flesh look abit like the custard apple with a stringy texture to it? |
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| Doesn't look spiny enough to be a muricata. Looks more like A. montana, the mountain soursop. |
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| Or it may even be the dreaded A.glabra or Pond Apple , it is spreading all over the wet tropics up here , and I did buy one many years ago from a market down near Brisbane . |
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| Sure looks like our Pond Apple. A major player in the Florida Everglades. Years ago, just at the north landing of the Daintree River Ferry, there were some of these black sheep of the Anonna family growing. A large sign with dire warnings about the plant was posted there. The trees and the sign are long gone but the Pond Apple lives on in FNQ. This one can live with its roots and trunk under water for extended periods...spreads quickly and will take over any wet areas. The fruit does not taste good enough (insipid) for commercial use. |
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