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Annona tomentosa is a small woolly-leaved shrub from Bolivia and Brazil, grown mainly for its woolly foliage and edible fruit in warm, seasonally dry climates. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and is not frost-tolerant.
Annona tomentosa is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Bolivia and Brazil. Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the dense woolly hairs (tomentosus in Latin) covering its branches and leaves.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Annona tomentosa 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.
