Anonidium mannii Engl. & Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Magnoliales > Annonaceae > Anonidium

Characteristics

A tree. It grows to 30 m high. The trunk is 80 cm across. The leaves are large and papery. They are alternate and oblong to sword shaped and 30 cm long by 10 cm wide. They have short leaf stalks. The flowering stalks are 30 cm long. The flowers are brownish or yellow green. The petals are thick and leathery. The fruit is large and elongated. They are golden yellow. The flesh is soft and yellow.
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Tree 20–60 ft. high, wide-spreading crown of dense foliage
Flowers pale green, borne on leafless branches
Fruit up to 30 cm. long.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.8
Mature height (meter) 20.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Rain-forest, fringing forest, and adjacent savannah on clayey soil with humus. A lower and middle storey tree of the lowland dense rain-forest.
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A tropical plant. It grows in forests along rivers.
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Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.
Uses food gene source material medicinal social use
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed. Seeds are often slow to germinate.
Mode seedlings
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Conservation status

Anonidium mannii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:72347-1
WFO ID wfo-0000538246
COL ID 66VS8
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Uva crassipetala Anonidium laurentii Anonidium mannii Annona laurentii Uvaria crassipetala Annona mannii Anonidium mannii var. mannii

Lower taxons

Anonidium mannii var. brieyi