Custard apple trees throughout Queensland are starting to flower, as the summer months approach. The Sunshine Coast produces the bulk of Queensland’s 60,000 custard apples, with 19,000 trees grown in ...

My three-month-old seed-grown custard apple plant is about 30cm tall and budding. Should I plant it in the ground? How long will it take to bear fruit and what insects are needed to pollinate it? I ...

But Paul Thorne, who is the president of Australian Custard Apples, has made his living from farming this Redlands property for more than 30 years. He started working the block when he was just 23, ...

Native to South America or the West Indies, depending on who you read, carried to Central America and Mexico, custard apples are naturalised and cultivated in Peru and Brazil, grown in the Bahamas, ...

The custard apple trade serves as a vital source of seasonal income for poor families and small traders during the three-month rainy season. These traders collect wild fruits from mandals such as ...

Ask a Queenslander of a certain age about custard apples, and you're likely to be met with a nostalgic food memory or a to-die-for recipe. Custard apple trees were once common in Queensland The ...

Common pawpaw is a small, short-trunked tree or large, multistemmed shrub, 10 to 40 feet tall, with large, tropical-like leaves. (Stefan Bloodworth / Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center) Pawpaw or ...

Hyderabad: It’s the time of the year when Annuna squmos L., more popularly known as custard apple, marks its presence in the city. The fruit, once taken for granted for its plentiful availability, is ...