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Annona bullata

Annona bullata
Photo: Achille Richard (drawn by "Vauthier pinx" and engraved by "Mlle C.Noiret sc"), Public domain

Annona bullata is a tree (about 16 to 19 m tall) from Cuba, in the custard apple family, named for the bubbled look of the leaf veins. It is a wild tree of seasonally dry tropical forest rather than a common garden plant.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil or loamy mix.
Temperature
18-30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Cuba
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Annona bullata is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cuba. Achille Richard, the French botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the bubbled (bullatus in Latin) appearance of the spaces between the fine network of veins in the leaves.

Other Annona plants

Annona acuminata · Annona acutiflora · Annona ambotay · Annona andicola · Annona angustifolia · Annona asplundiana · Annona atabapensis · Annona aurantiaca · Annona bahiensis · Annona boliviana · Annona cacans · Annona calcarata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Annona bullata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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