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Chirimoya ?

bob at sky.netNOSPAM bob at sky.netNOSPAM
Mon Dec 1 16:43:54 EST 1997


Marco Bleeker <mbleeker at euronet.nl> wrote:
> Does anybody know what a Chirimoya is (species, family, habitus). I ate this
> fruit last week for the first time in my life, tasted delicious: a bit
> pear-like, very sweet. It is about the size of a large apple, green, with
> scale-like indentations. The seeds are hard like stone, 1 cm, black, a dozen or
> more dispersed in the white "flesh" of the fruit. I'd like to germinate these
> seeds - any hints?

The California Rare Fruit Growers' website has a page all about
Cherimoya. It's at http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/cherimoya.html


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