Galapagos Species Database
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Annona reticulata
anona roja, anona corazón, corazón de buey, wild sweetsop, bullock's heart, ox heart
Trees to 6 m tall, evergreen. Branchlets grayish sericeous, glabrescent. Axillary leaf buds ovoid, apex obtuse. Inflorescences leaf-opposed or internodal, cymose, several flowered. Flower buds lanceolate, apex obtuse. Sepals ovate, 2-3 mm, outside pubescent, inside glabrous. Petals yellowish green (WFO, 2022).
It is has environmental uses, as a poison and a medicine and for food (POWO, 2O22).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Magnoliales
Family
Annonaceae
Genus
Annona
Species
reticulata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Annona excelsa Kunth
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1998
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: Potentially Invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Its native range is Mexico to NE. Venezuela (POWO, 2O22).
- Flores, E. (1985) Censo de Plantas Introducidas desde el Canal de Itabaca hasta Puerto Ayora. Tesis de Ingeniero Forestal, Univ. Técnica Luis Vargas Torres, Esmeraldas: 1-132.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Annona reticulata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=185. Accessed 15 December 2024.