Bronceada
Variety of Cherimoya · Annona cherimola
Chilean lead variety with large, bronze-toned fruit and excellent flavour quality.
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3🇨🇱 Chile 1970
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Chilenische Selektion
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 450 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, conical fruit with wart-like protrusions (mamillate) and relatively thick skin turning tan-yellow at maturity. Excellent organoleptic quality, many seeds.
Growth
Vigorous subtropical tree, cultivated in central Chile.
Yield
One of the most important Chilean commercial varieties; sensitive during harvest/transport due to protrusions.
Notes
Hand pollination customary in Chile for yield and fruit size.
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