Annona montana
{{Short description|Species of tree}}
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|image = Annona montana.jpg
|genus = Annona
|species = montana
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
|authority = Macfad.
|synonyms = Annona marcgravii Mart.{{GRIN | accessdate = 2008-04-18 }}
Annona muricata Vell.
Annona pisonis Mart.
Annona sphaerocarpa{{cite web
| url = http://www.tropicos.org/Name/1600684
| title = Annona montana Macfad.
| access-date = 2008-04-18
| author = W3tropicos
| author-link = Missouri Botanical Garden
| publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden Press
}}
}}
File:Annona montana, aticum - Flickr - Tarciso Leão (3).jpg
{{lang|la|Annona montana}}, the mountain soursop, is a tree and its edible fruit in the Annonaceae family native to Central America, the Amazon, and islands in the Caribbean. It has fibrous fruits.{{cite book
| last = Cassidy
| first = Frederic Gomes
| title = A Dictionary of Jamaican English
| orig-year = 1967
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_lmFzFgsTZYC
| year = 2002
| publisher = University of the West Indies Press
| isbn = 976-640-127-6
| chapter = Mountain Witch
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_lmFzFgsTZYC&pg=PA308
}} {{lang|la|A. montana}} may be used as a rootstock for cultivated Annonas.{{cite book
| last = Llamas
| first = Kirsten Albrecht
| title = Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WxW4Scq6kU8C
| year = 2003
| publisher = University of the West Indies Press
| isbn = 0-88192-585-3
| chapter = Annonaceae
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WxW4Scq6kU8C&pg=PA60
}}
Etymology and common names
The Latin specific epithet montana refers to mountains or "coming from mountains". Archibald William Smith {{google books|ahNMkgoNJ7IC|A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins|page=239}}
- {{langx|en|mountain soursop, mountain sop, wild soursop}}
- {{langx|cs|mountain soursop}}
- {{langx|de|Schleimapfel}}
- {{langx|es|guanábana cimarrona, guanábana, guanábana de loma, guanábana de monte, guanábana de perro, taragus, turagua}}
- {{langx|fr|corossolier bâtard}}
- {{langx|gn|araticu}}
- {{langx|hu|hegyi annóna}}
- {{langx|pt|araticum, araticum açú, araticum apé}}
- {{langx|sk|anona}}{{cite web
| url = http://www.fao.org/aims/ag_intro.htm?termid=12675
| title = Thesaurus, FAO
| access-date = 2008-04-18
| author = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
| author-link = Food and Agriculture Organization
| date = 2007-11-21
| work = AGROVOC
| publisher = United Nations
| url = http://www.bioversityinternational.org/Information_Sources/Species_Databases/New_World_Fruits_Database/qryall3.asp?intIDSpecies=96
| title = Result set for: Annonaceae Annona montana
| access-date = 2008-04-18
| author = Bioversity International
| author-link = Bioversity International
| work = New World Fruits Database
}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
Description
The tree is similar to Annona muricata, but has a more spreading crown and glossy leaves. It is slightly hardier and bears fruit throughout the year.{{cite web
| url = http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/wild_custard_apple_ars.html
| title = Wild Custard Apple
| access-date = 2008-04-18
| last = Morton
| first = Julia F
| author-link = Purdue University
| date = 1999-04-02
| pages = 86–88
| work = New Crops
| publisher = Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080509130032/http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/wild_custard_apple_ars.html| archive-date= 9 May 2008 | url-status= live}} It tolerates brief temperature drops down to {{convert|24|F|C}} when full grown.{{cite web |title=Mountain Soursop - Annona montana |url=http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/mountain_soursop.htm |website=Trade Winds Fruit |access-date=15 February 2019}} Its pollen is shed as permanent tetrads.{{cite journal|last1=Tsou|first1=C.-H.|last2=Fu|first2=Y.-L.|title=Tetrad pollen formation in Annona (Annonaceae): proexine formation andbinding mechanism|journal=American Journal of Botany|volume=89|issue=5|year=2002|pages=734–747|issn=0002-9122|doi=10.3732/ajb.89.5.734|pmid=21665673}} The fruits are nearly round, with dark green skin covered with many short fleshy spines, and are about {{convert|15|cm|in}} long. Yellow, fibrous pulp – which is aromatic – is sour and bitter, containing many light-brown, plump seeds. There is history of its use as a traditional medicine.
Distribution
A. montana grows wild at altitudes from {{convert|0|m|ft}} to {{convert|650|m|ft}}. Its natural distribution is:
:Caribbean: West Indies
:Central America: Costa Rica, Panama
:South America: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil{{cite web |title=Annona montana |url=http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Annona+montana |website=Useful Tropical Plants |access-date=15 February 2019}}
:United States: Southern Florida
See also
References
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Category:Trees of the Amazon rainforest
Category:Plants described in 1837
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