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Author: ParaCrawl Corpus
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English[en]
The fruits are syncarps (a whole of several simple fruits, grown together thus forming an apparently sole fruit), globose, with a diameter of 15-20 cm, covered by a reddish-brown tomentum and with pyramidal protuberances, with a curved apex; yellow or orange, fibrous pulp, very scented, where several elliptic, compressed, about 3 cm long, brown to black seeds are dispersed. It reproduces by seed, which has a germination capability of a few months, in loam rich of organic substance with addition of sand or perlite, kept humid, at the temperature of 22-24 °C; the germination takes place after 3-4 weeks and the first flowering starting from the fifth, sixth year of age.
Spanish[es]
Los frutos son sincarpos (grupo de muchos frutos simples concrescentes que participan en el desarrollo de una estructura que parece un solo fruto) globosos, de 15-20 cm de diámetro, recubiertos de un tomento marrón rojizo y con protuberancias piramidales de punta recurva; la pulpa es fibrosa de color amarillo o naranja muy perfumada en la cual están agregado de arena silícea o perlita, mantenido húmedo, a 22-24°C de temperatura; la germinación tiene lugar luego de 3-4 semanas y la primera floración a partir del quinto, sexto año de edad.