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• delicious fruit
• gentle pressure
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• mark twain
• room temperature
• fascination
• beetle
• pollen
• insects
• refrigerator
• schroeder
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Cherimoya, Cherimoya

The fruit flesh is white, and has numerous seeds embedded in it. Mark Twain called the cherimoya "the most delicious fruit known to men." The Sacramento Daily Union, October 25, 1866 The Moche culture of Peru had a fascination with agriculture and represented fruits and vegetables in their art.

Avoid fruits with cracks or mostly browned skin. Ripe fruit may be kept in the refrigerator, but it is best to let immature cherimoyas ripen at room temperature, until it yields to gentle pressure.

The short-lived flowers open as female, then progress to a later, male stage in a matter of hours. This requires a separate pollinator that not only can collect the pollen from flowers in the male stage, but also deposit it in flowers in the female stage. It is acknowledged that there must be such a natural pollinator, and while so far studies of insects in the cherimoya's native region have been inconclusive, some form of beetle is suspected (Schroeder 1995).

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