Title: Collected papers on tropical fruits in California
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Authors: Popenoe, Wilson, 1892-1975
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282 Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany he found that a number of trees had been raised and were in bearing, but the fruit was still scarce and sold in the markets from eight to twelve reales each. It was more than one hundred years later that the first Cherimoya seeds found their way to Europe, and having come from Peru it was naturally supposed that the tree was a native of that country. Later, when European botanists found the tree in an apparently wild state in the mountains of Peru and Ecuador^ this belief was more firmly established, but it is plainly apparent that the tree might have become naturalized in the two hundred years that had elapsed since its introduction, even to such an extent as to lead to the belief that it was native. Prof. Alcocer points out that the work. "Historia del Xuevo Mundo." was unknown to DeCandoUe, and he also presents much other evidence in favor of a Central American origin, with the result that little room is left for doubt.
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Figure 122. Fruits of Cherimoya on a young tree at Hollywood, California. Common Names In Mexico the common name of this fruit is spelled "Chirimoya." Evidently a different spelling is used in Peru, giving rise to the specific name Cherimolia and the English adaptations "Cherimoya" and "Cherimoyer." the latter most commonly used in the British colonies. Though the fruit came to California from Mexico, the spelling "Cherimoya" has been generally adopted by horticulturists in this state and will, in all probability, eventually supersede all others. Some authorities have termed all members of the genus Anona "Custard Apple" individually and collectively, it is extremely undesirable that the Cherimoya be kno^vn under this name, which properly belongs to the West Indian Anona reticulata, a fruit similar to the Cherimoya in many characteristics.

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