From the Manual Of
Tropical And Subtropical Fruits
by Wilson Popenoe
The Mountain
Soursop
Annona montana Macf.
This species is native to the West Indies, where it is also known as
guanabana cimarrona (Spanish, wild guanabana) and corossolier batard
(French). It is a small forest tree with leaves resembling those of the
soursop; the flowers also resemble those of that species. P. J. Wester,
1 who tested the fruit in the
Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java, was
"surprised to find it of remarkably good quality considering that it is
entirely unimproved and that it has never been recorded as edible. The
fruit is about the size of a small custard-apple, with sparse, short
prickles; greenish, and with yellowish, rather cottony but juicy and
subacid, refreshing pulp, somewhat recalling the flavor of the soursop
though inferior to that fruit." The tree is larger and more robust than
A. muricata.
1 Philippine Agrl. Review, 2, 1916.
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