Annona salzmannii

Annona salzmannii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Annonaceae
Genus:	Annona
Species:	A. salzmannii
Binomial name
	Annona salzmannii; L.

Annona salzmannii, the beach sugar apple, is a tree native to Brazil.[1]

It is an extremely rare Annona bearing orange skinned fruits up to one pound in weight with a sweet and very tasty white pulp. The fruit is prized in its native range, but is rare and never cultivated.

The tree is an evergreen tree to 30–45 feet (9.1–13.7 m), one of the tallest Annona trees. Those weird and wonderful fruit trees are like A. scleroderma and A. crassiflora.

A. salzmannii is a food source for golden-headed lion tamarins (one of 155 tree species useful to the tamarins).[2]

References

"Annona salzmannii". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 21 January 2018.
Oliveira, L. C.; Hankerson, S. J.; Dietz, J. M.; Raboy, B. E. (2010), "Key tree species for the golden-headed lion tamarin and implications for shade-cocoa management in southern Bahia, Brazil", Animal Conservation, 13: 60, doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00296.x

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[1] "Annona salzmannii". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 21 January 2018.

[2] Oliveira, L. C.; Hankerson, S. J.; Dietz, J. M.; Raboy, B. E. (2010), "Key tree species for the golden-headed lion tamarin and implications for shade-cocoa management in southern Bahia, Brazil", Animal Conservation, 13: 60, doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00296.x