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Annona squamosa
A round but somewhat heart shaped green to a faint yellowish green fruits on a thickened stalk. The pulp of the fruit is sweet tasting and aromatic with a white to pale cream pulp inside. The seeds are scattered all over on the fruit pulp. Each individual seed is enclosed in its own fleshy covering with the sweet pulp all around it and especially all over inside its hard outer skin. The seeds are shiny black in color. The outer skin of the fruit is hard, lumpy with many raised and curved protuberances.
The seeds are poisonous.
Spotted on Jul 28, 2014
Submitted on Aug 4, 2014
3 Comments
Atis (tagalog) is what my girl friend calls this fruit. I am retired American living in Cagayan de oro city, Philippines. She removes seeds with her hands and throw out.
The fruit is ripe when lumps tend to separate each other, you should easily break it into half by then. Each of the lump on skin represents a segment of a gooey pulp and a seed inside. You can either eat directly or scoop it with a spoon, further processing within your mouth, try to separate the seeds and spit it out. Remember the seeds are maliciously toxic when shell is cracked.
Interesting spotting! Do people eat these after removing the seeds? It seems that might be kind of laborious if they are scattered throughout the pulp.