Description ⁴

Asimina triloba, the pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or common pawpaw, is a species of Asimina (the pawpaw genus) in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop. The pawpaw is native to the Eastern, Southern, and Midwestern United States and adjacent southernmost Ontario, Canada, from New York west to southeastern Nebraska, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. The pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree.

Uses: Produces a mango-shaped fruit edible raw or cooked. Must be eaten quickly after picking as it will self-ferment right away.

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1. (c) rockerBOO, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/rockerboo/8041510417/
2. (c) [1], some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asimina_triloba1.jpg
3. (c) User:Phyzome, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asimina_triloba_-_pawpaw_-_desc-flower.jpg
4. Adapted by Amber Leung from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba

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