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Annona pachyantha

Annona pachyantha is a tree in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), native to lowland rainforest on Colombia's Pacific coast. It is known only from a small area, so it is rarely grown and has little horticultural history.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and reduce watering in cooler or drier periods.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, slightly acidic loam or a rich potting mix.
Temperature
22–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Annona pachyantha is a species of flowering plant in the Annonaceae family. It is a tree endemic to Colombia. It has a limited range in Valle del Cauca and Chocó departments on Colombia's Pacific coast, where it grows in lowland Chocó–Darién rain forest up to 100 meters elevation.

The species was first described as Rollinia pachyantha by Maas and Westra in 1989. In 2007 Heimo Rainer merged genus Rollinia into Annona and renamed the species A. pachyantha.

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 pachyantha 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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