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local vegetable
Annona squamosa
Nomenclature
Media
SUMMARY
Trees, deciduous. Branchlets pubescent, glabrescent. Leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or oblong, thinly papery to membranous, abaxially pale green and puberulent when young but glabrate in age, base obtuse to rounded and slightly decurrent, apex acute to obtuse, . Inflorescences 1-flowered or 2-4-fasciculate. Sepals triangular. Outer petals basally green to purple, oblong-lanceolate, fleshy, thick, inside concave, keeled on apical half; inner petals absent or reduced to scales, as long as stamens. Stamens oblong; connective broad, apex subtruncate. Carpels oblong, distinct at anthesis; stigmas ovate-lanceolate. Syncarp greenish yellow, slightly pruinose, spherical to ovoid, 5-10 cm in diam., areoles rounded, convex, separated by deep grooves; pulp white. Seeds black-brown.