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Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
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Host to the zebra swallowtail. Sweet fruits are edible. Sparingly spreads by underground suckers.
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Asimina triloba
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The attractive, one-inch, reddish/brown flowers appear before the leaves in spring, but it is the shiny magnolia-like foliage that really makes this a handsome tree. The pawpaw is and understory tree and prefers good soil in low areas. It produces an edible, sweet fruit in the fall that tastes somewhat like a banana. This is a host plant for the zebra swallowtail. It does spread a little by suckers; however, those suckers can be controlled with an occasional mowing.
Uses: butterflies, wildflife, edible, rain garden
Bloom time: April - May
Height: 20 to 30 feet
Space: 8 to 16 feet
Light: Sun to shade
Moisture: Average to moist
Q:
While doing some research, I found you should buy at least two trees that are not clones or siblings for pollination. How can I be sure of this if I buy both from you?
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Ashlea
- 9/16/2017
A:
We grow ours from seed. This ensures that they are not clones.
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Approximately how tall are your Pawpaw trees in the Gallon/larger pots?
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Steven Johnson
- 8/27/2019
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We usually start selling them when they are about a foot tall.
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I have a question about Pawpaw trees. My information from the extension office states that 2 or more genotypes are required for pollination and fruit set. Are each on your trees genetically different? What cultivar are the trees you sell? Thank you!
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Crystal Hinman
- 5/4/2020
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Ours are grown from seed collected from wild populations. There is a small chance that one of our sources is a particular cultivar (we could look into it), but we get seeds from multiple naturally occurring
groves throughout the state every year.
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