Annonas (barbed). Extended names: sour sop, guanabana, ravioli, and prickly custard apple. Origin: South America. Annonas one of the most popular fruits in the tropics. It is very simple in the cultivation of all Annonas. It is the fruit most suitable for transportation and processing.
A small compact tree reaches wild heights 6 m, the room is much lower. Unlike some other Annonas is an evergreen tree. Leaves oval or oblong shape, glossy, curvaceous, dark green, up to 15 cm in length they are slightly spicy smell, especially noticeable when embrocating. Annonas - a relative of the famous ylang-ylang (they are from one family), the smell of leaves they have similar, and in the structure of a flower you can find a lot in common. Tealeaves can be used as a hypnotic and depressant (see recipe below). Flowers fragrant, large (up to 4.5 cm in diameter), composed of three yellow-green fleshy outer petals and three pale yellow Interior, and may appear in different places - in the trunk, branches and small twig. Flowers never fully disclosed. The fruits are oval or cordite, often irregularly shaped, to 30 cm in length, 15 cm in diameter and weighing up to 3 kg, dark-green when ripe are yellow-green. Fetal skin thin but tough, has a reticulated pattern. Juicy light creamy flesh is like custard, is divided into segments that contain in some cases on a smooth oval dark seed. Pulp fragrant, with a small kislinkoy, has a unique flavor, somewhat resembling pineapple. The fruit contains several dozen seeds. Annonas marinate has the greatest benefits from all Annonas.
It belongs to a group of sweet fruit contains carbohydrates, protein, folic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin C, vitamins of group B. Fruit supports the bowel flora, improves liver and reduces weight, normalizes the acidity of the stomach, promotes the removal from the body of uric acid , so it is recommended that people suffering from rheumatism, arthritis and gout. Improves the liver, promotes weight loss. The fruits are collected when they are still solid, but have changed its color from dark green to slightly yellowish-green. If you allow derivate fruit on the tree - they may fall on the ground and damaged if dropped. After collection, they may remain strong for several days at room temperature. Ripe fruit is soft; it is felt by pressing a finger. Ripe fruits can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 days. Skin may pother, but the flesh remains Sedona.
The flesh may be eaten directly from the spoon the fruit, it can be inhibited for further use. Before machining flesh must remove all the seeds because they are somewhat poisonous. Pulp is used to make juices, cocktails and other drinks, puree, ice cream. Rich in vitamins B and C, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus. In Indonesia, immature fruits are used as vegetables.
Indoor cultivation
Annonas has managed to gain the interest of many fans of the tropical exoticism. This tropical fruit tree is convenient for all: unpretentious, makes little shading, it does not require a large container, compact, and begins to fruit directly into babushka already in the third year after planting seeds. In addition, on keynote and aroma - heavenly! You do not need to have greenhouses to grow this tropical fruit - the sun by the window is quite fit, well and in summer, like all tropical Annonas with the pleasure to enjoy a warm sun on the balcony, porch or garden. Important - it does not need to inculcate, as most other fruit trees. Fruits depravity Annonas as well as fruit under stock, as opposed to the lemon or mango, which depravities suitable only as a Christmas tree. Annonas - deciduous plant, thus sowing the seeds of desirable late winter or spring. In an extreme case, the early summer, the main thing - sprouts should catch young and a little winter Fold the leaves of seedlings, too, and if they are too small, do not survive until spring. The seeds are sown at a depth of about 1 cm in a light, well-drained soil mix. For more rapid germination of seeds is recommended to pre-dunk for a day in warm water. The term of the germination of seeds - 15-30 days.
An important prerequisite for the successful germination of seeds Annonas - high temperature (25-30C). In the face of Russia's flat is easy - if the seed sowing in February and March, the heating season is not yet complete, and plucky can be placed closer to the battery. Just be careful - do not persecute ground and do not cook the seeds. If you are sowing the summer and it was not too warm - you will need to think about the heating system. Rasp seeds optional, but you can.
Illumination - the direct sun or light shade. For soil undemanding, but it is recommended to use loose, well-drained soil mix. If excessive drying of soil may drop leaves.
