Pawpaw

Scientific Name:   Asimina triloba


Sweet, edible fruit but mildly toxic seeds with insecticidal properties. Rusty-brown terminal buds, shaped like an artist's paint brush. Perfect flowers (male and female parts in same flower) slightly fetid. Sole larval food source for Zebra Swallowtail butterflies.

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Pawpaw


Genus species: Asimina triloba
Common Name: Pawpaw
Family Name: Annonaceae  
Small deciduous trees; leaves alternate, distichous, simple and entire; flowers bisexual, regular, solitary; fruit a bananalike berry.
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Tree
Flower Color:Green/Brown
Identified by:A. Swanson
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