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Lots of ants, flies, and beetles have been showing up in the pawpaw patch. Apparently highly attractive to scorpionflies (Mecoptera), too, though I've yet to see them. #annonaceae #pawpaw #tree #plants #flies #ants #pollinators #flowers #insects
Why does this matter?
Understanding how these unique seeds develop can reveal how different reproductive strategies evolved in flowering plants and help preserve biodiversity in early-divergent lineages like Annonaceae. 
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I'm trying to locally adapt the largest fruit we can grow on a tree in our Northern temperate climate - Pawpaw. If you want to join the conversation, look here: https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/pawpaw-asimina-triloba/3125 #pawpaw #adaptation #plantbreeding #asimina #fruitexplorer #fruit
Open Access. "Comparison of Grafting and Budding Propagation Techniques for Cultivars of the North American Pawpaw " @plantscience
https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/34/6/article-p653.xml #Horticulture #PawPaw #FruitToot #Gardening
If you live in the Eastern US and have never had #pawpaw before, I definitely recommend checking out a pawpaw festival near you if you can find one. There's a lot of different cultivars and even with my *very* limited experience I can tell there's a lot of variation in flavor. So if you happen to find a pawpaw tree in the woods, or maybe in your neighbor's garden, great! But don't necessarily judge all pawpaws from the first fruit you taste. The first pawpaw I ate was kind of like a less-sweet, more-grassy banana; the second was a much sweeter flavor reminiscent of a banana-mango blend. If there's a local festival devoted to pawpaws, you may get a chance to sample a few varieties and see the range that the fruit has to offer.
I've lived my entire life in the Eastern US, and as far as I can recall, this year is the first time I've ever eaten #pawpaw. They taste a bit like banana or mango. I wouldn't say they're an ambrosia that everyone must taste, but they're good. Tonight my spouse made pawpaw bread from some ripe fruits we bought at a festival, and it was pretty excellent.
It's a strange thing. Pawpaw is a native fruit that's been consumed as a staple in this region for literally thousands of years. And yet a century ago, people just kinda stopped eating them. Not everywhere, folks in Appalachia and the Ozarks continued growing and harvesting them, but despite the fact that they apparently have very good domestication potential and are well adapted to the climate of the Eastern US, they were never commercialized widely. So you don't see them in stores, and until the recent revival in interest in them, a lot of people who live where pawpaws grow have probably never even really heard of them.
Foraging for America’s Forgotten Fruit: A guide to finding, prepping, and enjoying the pawpaw. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-forage-for-pawpaw-recipes #foodhistory #FirstNations #NorthAmerica #pawpaw #foraging #recipes
Nice article in Undark on breeding pawpaw (Asimina triloba, Annonaceae), North America's largest native edible fruit. #pawpaw #fruit #tree #breeding #plants #ArtificialSelection https://undark.org/2024/08/12/pawpaw-uncertain-path-for-emerging-crops/
Anyone else have a #PawPaw tree? Our biggest (maybe 7 feet tall) is producing fruit for the first time this year, and at least one branch is already bending significantly under the load. Based on your experience, should I cull some of the fruit?
The pawpaw blooms have started to open. The ants seem to like them. I always find a few hanging around the flowers.
Hikers on the C&O Canal towpath at the Paw Paw Tunnel, Allegany County, Maryland. August 1976.
Scanned from a 35mm Kodachrome slide. #OldPhotos #Kodachrome #Maryland #PawPaw #Tunnel #Hiking
Had a fun walk searching for pawpaws with Chris and Stef this afternoon. We walked out to one of my fav small surf spots by Offut Island and I showed them what pawpaw tree leaves look like and how to spot pawpaws. We found some nice ones that easily fell off the trees, but they aren't ripe enough to eat. We may check again in a week or two. Hopefully, these will ripen in the boat 
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Oh, we all found a spicebush and chewed on a few berries.
Pawpaw fruit! Not ripe yet, but hanging in there. I only saw a few others on this tree. We seldom see fruit at all. Usually, despite lots of blossoms in the spring, only a few fruit are set and most fall off while they're small.
