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It has been quite some time that I have paid very little attention to my sugar apple trees. They have grown pretty high and the fruits are out of sight. Now and then, a ripe fruit would fall and scatter on the grass... This year, a low branch has this large 4 inch fruit that caught my attention. Hello Annona squamosa!
I know just a person who would love this, and it is for that person. This fruit is softening perfectly and will be ready in a couple more days.
This is truly one of my most favorite fruits: the sugar apple. Indigenous to tropical America, sugar apples grow well in the tropics of Florida. The aggregate fruit is heart-shaped, round, ovate, or conical, from 2 to 5 inches (5.1-12.7 cm) in diameter and weighs from 4 to 24 oz (113-682 g). The fruit is composed of loosely (the lesser quality kind) or tightly (my kind of sugar apple) cohering segments containing hard shiny black seeds. The pulp of green and purplish-red sugar apples is white or creamy white, with a custard-like consistency and sweet, pleasant flavor. The fruits can ripe well after being picked still green, ma non troppo. I know just when to pick them. Double yummy!
