Annona, also known as Torch Fruit, Fotou Fruit and Sakyamuni Fruit. The causal shape is strange, and the young fruit looks like "litchi", which was introduced from "Fanbang", so it is called "annona"; There are many protruding scales on the surface of its fruit, which look like the head of Sakyamuni in Buddhism. So people in Taiwan Province Province used to call it "Sakyamuni".
The extended data fruit consists of many round or oval mature carpels, which are easy to separate. Aggregate fruit is spherical or heart-shaped, hairless, yellow-green, covered with white icing. The flowering period is May-June, and the fruiting period is June-165438+1October.
Annona squamosa is not cold-tolerant, young trees have cold damage at 4℃, and 4-5-year-old trees also have cold damage at -2℃. Trees are drought-tolerant and avoid water accumulation. Sandy soil with strong adaptability to soil, but good drainage can grow rapidly, with large fruits and good quality.