Pawpaw
- Botanical Name
- Asimina triloba
- Min Zone
- 5
- Max Zone
- 8
- Height
- 15 to 20 feet
- Width
- 15 to 20 feet
- Flowers
- Early spring: cup-shaped, 6 petaled, nodding dark purple
- Fruit
- Edible, 6 inch cylindrical shaped, yellow-green
- Fall Color
- Yellow to yellow-green
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist to wet, well-drained, slightly acidic
- Planting & Care
- Drought sensitive
- Will grow in shade, but tree will be open and shaggy in habit
- Often spreads by root suckers to form colonies
- Flavor and flesh consistency of fruit is similar to bananas
- Fruit is sought out and relished by wildlife such as raccoons, opossums and squirrels
- Tolerant to black walnut toxicity
- Best fruit production occurs when trees are growing close to each other
- Native to low bottom woods, wooded slopes, ravines and along streams
- Problems
- None serious
- Varieties
- Mango - late ripening cultivar, large fruit with orange-yellow flesh, 15 to 25 feet
- NC-1 - large fruit with fewer seeds and thinner skin, early ripening, 12 to 15 feet
- Pennsylvania Golden - very early ripening fruit, very sweet fruit, 12 to 15 feet
- Prolific - abundant fruiting, early ripening 12 to 15 feet
- Overleese - large fruit with few seeds, early ripening, 12 to 15 feet
- Sunflower - large fruit with fewer seeds, late ripening, 15 to 25 feet
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