ISHS Acta Horticulturae 321: Frontier in Tropical Fruit Research
ABIU - A NEW FRUIT WITH POTENTIAL FOR THE NORTHERN TERRITORY |
| Authors: | T.K. Lim, G. Ramsay |
| Abstract:
Abiu, a sapotaceous fruit from the Amazon basin, grows and fruits well around Darwin and Northern Queensland. It has an attractive bright yellow skin with a pleasant, sweet, caramel - flavoured, nutritious pulp. The tree is of medium stature, evergreen and has no photoperiodic or dry duration for flowering. A tree of three years old can yield 10–25 kg fruit. The botany, agroecological requirements, agronomy and selection studies of the crop are discussed. | |
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