Edible Portion:Fruit A small tree up to 7.5 m tall. It has several branches near the base. Trees loose their leaves at some times of the year. Newshoots have short brown hairs but older wood is smooth and shiny. The leaves are long and spear shaped with short leaf stalks.Around the edge of the...
1988-01-01 This book is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of growing and marketing custard apples. It combines information based on neww research findings and established growing practices. Sixteen pages of colour plates have been added to this revised edition to help readers identify pest, diseases and...
Growables Origin Although it is said thatA. reticulatais a native of the Antilles. the presence in Guatemala and Belize of a wild variety,A. reticulatavar.primigenia, and also of a very wide variability of cultivars suggests that this zone is the species' area of origin. It has been introduced in...