| Description | Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a small single to multi-stemmed tree that produces an edible fruit. |
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| Pronunciation | (A-sim-i-na)(tri-LOO-ba) |
| Plant Type | Edible Fruit, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-8 |
| Sunlight | full to part sun |
| Moisture | prefers moist |
| Soil & Site | prefers moist well drained |
| Flowers | single, dull plum purple, 6 petals outer being larger than inner, blooms before leaves form, buds are fuzzy |
| Fruit | single, dull plum purple, six petals, the outer being more significant than the inner, blooms before leaves form (precocious), calyx has 3 sepals pale green to brownish, downy |
| Leaves | simple, alternate, 6-12 inches long, green turning to yellow or cinnamon color in the fall |
| Stems | precocious |
| Dimensions | 15-20, up to 30-40 in favorable sites, often suckering forming colonies, often found growing as an understory plant |
| Propagation | seeds, moist stratification for 60 days |
| Native Site | Native to United States Florida from New York west to Nebraska and Texas. |
| Misc Facts | AKA: Custard Apple, Wild Banana, Fetid shrub |
| Notes & Reference | #1-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants(Michael A. Dirr), #39-The Natural History of Trees (Donald Cultrose Pattie), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobsen) |
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