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Annona pickelii

Annona pickelii is a tree in the custard apple family (Annonaceae), native to northeastern Brazil, where it grows in lowland Atlantic rain forest and coastal sand forest. Few cultivation records exist, so care is inferred from close relatives in the genus.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top few centimetres of soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Brazil (Pernambuco)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Annona pickelii is a species of flowering plant in the Annonaceae family. It is a tree endemic to Alagoas, Bahia, Piauí, Sergipe, and Pernambuco states of northeastern Brazil. It grows in lowland Atlantic rain forest and restinga (coastal forests on sand).

The species was first described as Rollinia pickelii by Ludwig Diels in 1933. In 2007 Heimo Rainer merged the genus Rollina into Annona and renamed the species A. pickelii.

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 pickelii 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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