Paw Paw Fruit Kansas
Flattened cylindric curved banana like 2 to 5 inches long 1 to 2 inches wide greenish yellow changing to brown or black.
Paw paw fruit kansas. Asimina triloba or pawpaw is native to eastern kansas and grows naturally in the understory of hardwoods in moist soils found along river bottoms and creeks it is a small tree that grows approximately 15 30 feet tall and resembles a tropical tree in appearance. Joseph this season it hardly seems at all as there were any poor drought effect though the 2007 drought left nary a one there must be something else about that. Are you ready to enjoy delicious homegrown fruit. Asimina triloba the american papaw pawpaw paw paw or paw paw among many regional names is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern united states and canada producing a large yellowish green to brown fruit.
This year we ve found large paw paw sized group of six 6 or a half dozen at a time there. Its fruit is a favorite of multiple wildlife species and can be eaten by humans as well. Inside is what looks like a yellow cream custard with black seeds. It belongs to the genus asimina in the same plant family the annonaceae as the custard apple cherimoya sweetsop ylang ylang and soursop.
Paw paw fruit grows wild in kansas. The best time to pick the fruit from your tree and how to store the fruit. Keep a few things in consideration as you reap the fruits of your labor. Seeds 2 10 oval 3 5 to 1 inch long flattened wrinkled dark brown shiny.
In kansas and missouri recently folks have been harvesting native pawpaws. The pawpaw is the largest edible fruit native to the united states and it has a texture and flavor similar to a mango banana custard unparalleled in the eastern woods. For some reason a warm winter or possibly all of the rain and flooding created a bumper crop in eastern kansas and missouri. Plant description pawpaw is a deciduous often narrowly conical tree or large shrub that grows about 35 feet 11 m rarely to 45 feet or 14 m tall with trunks 8 12 inches 20 30 cm or more in diameter.
Wish your page would take pictures to. We have so many paw paws on our place north of st. Flesh thick yellow sweet edible. Harvest is the time to enjoy the results of your hard work.