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Re: Cherimoya/Attamoya


>A beautiful thing.  Looks like a large, heart shaped plum.  The color is
>light green with tracings of "scales".  The flesh is an unusual custard
>consistency with an appealing slight graininess.  Large seeds are scattered
>throughout the flesh.
>
>As for the flavor, it's hard to classify.  A banana-strawberry sort of
>thing with a distinct rum flavor.  I'm totally addicted to the things.  I
>used to buy them in L.A. and paid dearly for them.  They're fairly common
>in Berlin because they're grown in the Mediterranean; I'd buy at least one
>daily at a fruit stand in one of the train stations.
>
>I believe the tree is originally native to Peru.
>
>I tried to grow it from seed but had no luck.  Maybe I didn't wait long
>enough since it took you 3 months.  Or the fruit I got my seed from was
>picked too green.
>

I had no particular difficulty in germinating the seeds from the one fruit
that I was able to find here in Wisconsin.  They are probably less common
here than elsewhere.

However, many of you might be interested to know that our native paw-paw,
Asimina triloba (not to be confused with the papaya, sometimes also
referred to as a paw-paw) can be grown in most regions of the US and is
supposed to have a similar flavor.  I have two in my garden here in
Milwaukee that are close to bearing size.  The one caveat is that if you
plan to grow this, you should buy named, grafted varieties, since the
quality of the fruit grown from seed is highly variable.

Don Martinson
dmartin@post.its.mcw.edu

"Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."

Jimmy Johnson - "Arlo & Janis"
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