Herbarium JCB

Annona reticulata L.

Family : ANNONACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Annonaceae
Species : Annona reticulata
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Annona reticulata L.
Common name : Bullock's Heart
Vernacular name : Ramphal (Hin.); Ramaphala (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 11387, R.R.Rao 530
Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
Key identification features : A medium size tree that is often cultivated, but generally grows wild and yields edible fruits. The leaves are shiny and dark-green. The branches are dark-brown. Flowers are unimpressive, both sepals and petals being sepal-like. The fruit, looking like Bullock's heart, is 3-4 inches in dia. and reddish-brown when ripe. It is similar to custard apple in that the several ovaries of the flower become united with each other and with the floral axis or the receptacle forming a fleshy mass in which seeds are embedded. The fruit pulp, however, is not so sweet or tasty as that of custard apple. Bark is greyish with vertical irregular superficial fissures.
Habit : Tree
Native : Neotropics
Comments : One West Indian common name of this fruit, custard-apple, is applied in India to A. squamosa
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Museum road, Bangalore
Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
Floras referred : Saldanha, 1984; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi