Cherimoya, chirimoya or chirimuya, Annona cherimola. Native to Central and South America, raised at the Bayswater hothouse of Mrs Elizabeth Wright, Comtesse de Vandes. Broad-leaved custard-apple, Annona tripetala. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1818.

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