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Annona cascarilloides

Annona cascarilloides
Photo: signed by illustrator with initials ABB, Public domain

Annona cascarilloides is a small shrub, up to about 2 m tall, native to western Cuba and found in seasonally dry tropical areas. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is based mainly on general Annona cultivation.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during the growing season and let the top few centimetres of soil dry out between waterings; reduce water in the dry season.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, rocky soils.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Cuba
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Annona cascarilloides is a species of flowering plant in the Annonaceae family. It is a shrub endemic to western Cuba. According to William Edwin Safford, the species was named it after the pattern of its leaf veins which resemble species of a different genus, that at the time Safford was writing was called Cascarilla, but is now synonymous with the genera Croton and Ladenbergia. Despite this assertion by Safford, August Grisebach, the German botanist who first formally described the species, makes no mention of Cascarilla in his 1866 entry.

Other Annona plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Annona cascarilloides 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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