Annona montana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Annona montana Macfadyen

Family: Annonaceae

Synonyms

• Annona marcgravii Mart.

Vernacular names

• Mountain soursop (En)
• Corosollier bâtard (Fr)
• Guanabana cimarrona (Sp)
• Philippines: ponhe.

Distribution

Growing wild throughout the West Indies and southward into Peru and Brazil. It is occasionally cultivated, also in South-East Asia.

Uses

The fruit is inferior to that of soursop but is used in the same way. Occasionally it is used as an ornamental and as rootstock for other species.

Observations

• Tree, resembling the soursop, but less susceptible to cold.
• Leaves larger than those of soursop.
• The fruit a smaller pseudocarp, ca. globose, up to 15 cm diameter, with short yellow prickles (not recurved); pulp is yellow, subacid to bitter, containing many light-brown seeds.

It grows up to 700 m altitude.

Selected sources

• Fouqué, A., 1972-1974. Espèces fruitières d'Amérique tropicale. Fruits 27-29.

• Mansfeld, R. & Schultze Motel, J., 1986. Verzeichnis landwirtschaftlicher und gärtnerischer Kuturpflanzen. 2nd ed. 4 Volumes. Springer Verlag, Berlin. 1998 pp.

• Morton, J.F., 1987. Fruits of warm climates. Creative Resource Systems Inc., Winterville, N.C., USA. 503 pp.

• Ochse, J.J., Soule, M.J., Dijkman, M.J. & Wehlburg, C., 1961. Tropical and subtropical agriculture. 2 Volumes. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1446 pp.