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Annona nutans is a shrub or small tree in the custard apple family, native to subtropical South America. It is grown mainly as a botanical or landscape plant and in its native range is found in fields and valleys.
Annona nutans is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to northern Argentina, Bolivia, central and southeastern Brazil, and Paraguay. Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its recurved peduncles which give the flowers a nodding (nutans in Latin) appearance.
It has been observed growing in fields, sandy plains and valleys.
It was described as being edible in 1914 by the American botanist William Edwin Safford. The pulp of the wild, fresh fruit has been reported as being used as a food source in Brazil.
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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.
