Annona neolaurifolia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Rollinia laurifolia, Schlecht. Araticu Mirim. A shrub or small tree with the new branchlets, petioles, peduncles, midrib, and nerves finely appressed-subfurfuraceous puberulent, the fls. and lower surface of the lf. clothed with finer and denser clay-colored puberulence: lvs. oblong-elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusish at the base, 3 1/2-5 in. long, 1 1/5-1 3/5 in. broad; midrib prominent beneath, lateral nerves 10-15 pairs; upper surface apparently glabrous, but as seen under a lens covered with minute appressed white hairs: peduncles solitary or in 2's or 3's, graduated in length, the longest 3 times as long as the petioles (1 in. long), bracteolate at the base, gradually thickening toward the apex: corolla-wings ascending-erect, broadened at the apex, rounded or quite obtus, 3/5in, in. long and 1/5in. broad near the apex, clothed with minute brownish- argillaceous tomentum: fr. subglobose, about the size of a horse-chestnut, composed of many carpels distinctly outlined and containing an edible, white, mucilaginous pulp with a pleasant sweet taste.—This species is based upon 2 flowering specimens collected in Brazil by Sellow (Nos. 809 and 1190).
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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