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Pawpaw Tree
Asimina triloba
Photo courtesy of Cranbury Housing Authority.
Photo courtesy of United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service.
Growing in popularity across the south and middle parts of the country is the Paw Paw Tree. Botanically known as Asimina triloba, a member of the Annonaceae (tropical Custard Apple Family), the pawpaw, unlike its tropical relatives, is hardy and naturally found dotted across the southern states. This unique tall shrub to small tree is widely adaptable to wet soils and shade conditions. Although they will grow more into a small tree in the full sun, they can handle half shade, but they will tend to be more of a sprawling shrub. Like most trees, they do best in good soil and growing conditions, but just make sure they get plenty of water, and a shot of fertilizer now and then, and these will be a great addition to your landscape design!
Paw Paw is growing in popularity largely because of the edible fruit it produces. What is a cross between a banana and a mango? A Paw Paw! No, they are not related, but the sweetness and texture of the fruit is something similar to a banana-mango. These highly nutritous oval fruits get 2 to 5 inches long, and turn yellow-orange when ripe. The custardy pulp is sweet, and there are several dark oval seeds.
Also, Paw Paw is getting a lot of attention for its medicinal value. The yellow custard-like fruit has high amino acid content; anti- carcinogens are present in the leaves; extracts from the twigs and leaves have some insecticidal properties.
Also unique about the Paw Paw are the flowers. These are a deep reddish-purple three-lobed shape, which is very unusual and attractive. The leaves can get large, oval shape, up to a foot in length. The natural habit of the Paw Paw is to grow into a tall shrub with many basal sprouts. They can be trimmed easily to maintain a small tree up to 40 feet tall. Plant the Paw Paw form Zones 5 to 9. As these are getting popular, order yours while the supply is plentiful...
The Paw Paw is a decorative small-sized tree or tall shrub that adds some very nice color and fruit. These are becoming very popular, and you can understand why!
Okay, so you have these great looking tropical trees growing in your backyard producing buckets of fruit . What now? You can tell that pawpaws are ripe with a gentle squeeze. They also take on a very sweet fragrance when they've ripened. I like eating the fresh fruit right under the tree, but fruit can also be harvested before it ripens and stored in the fridge for a couple of weeks. The fruit is somewhat perishable, so if you have more than you need and you've loaded up all of your friends and neighbors and you've had your fill of pawpaw bread (substitute it for bananas in your favorite banana bread recipe), just puree what's left the blender and freeze it. Then pull it out on a snowy night in the middle of the winter and voila--its summertime again!
How bout a Pawpaw Pie?
Take:
1 cup sugar, 1 egg,
1/4 tsp salt, 1 cup milk,
1 1/2 cups pawpaws (peeled & seeded)
Place all of the ingredients into a stew pan and stir together. Cook over medium heat until thickened. Pour into an unbaked pie shell and bake until the crust is done. Top it with whipped cream.
Paw Paw Trees... The trees are between 12" and 24" tall when shipped... And shipped Bare Root...
Shipping and planting times are winter and spring months. Please choose from following months: November thru April. But we will make exceptions with limited warranties due to heat during shipping.
And, any tree shipped during normal green and growth months ...which is May through October is going to arrive with brown, burned leaves. They will recover and go green again, but they are going to look dead on arrival.
PRICING AS FOLLOWS:
2 Paw Paw Trees = $12.95 plus $9.50 s/h.
10 Paw Paw Trees = $33.95 plus $12.50 s/h.
25 Paw Paw Trees = $49.95 plus $20.00 s/h.
50 Paw Paw Trees = $89.95 plus $25.00 s/h.
100 Paw Paw Trees = $178.00 plus $32.50 s/h.
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