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Fitzalania heteropetala

(Fitzalania, Orange Annona)

Description

This shrub was named after Eugene Fitzalan who collected extensively in the Burdekin in 1860. It usually grows to about 4 m tall and is usually found in vine thickets, the stems are hairy and branchlets form a zig-zag. Leaves are alternate, appear to arise in one plane (distichous), hairy on the lower surface, venation prominent. Flowers about 2 cm long, usually pendent, solitary in leaf axils, fragrant, perianth in 3 whorls, the smaller greenish whorl of 3 then 3 large purple tepals and then 3 smaller ones. Fruit indehiscent, ovoid to cylindrical, cigar-like, orange to 2.5 cm long, finely hairy, may be up to 12 in the one clump. Whilst not very fleshy the fruit is edible.

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