A paw-paw patch blooms in spring with flowers that smell like rotting meat. (Courtesy of Dan Torrison) He said, “Paw-paws trees do best as an understory tree when they are young.

The fruit referred to in the song is from the paw paw tree, and its botanical name is Asimina triloba. It is a member of the custard apple family, made up primarily of tropical fruit trees such as ...

Everyone has their own signals of impending autumn. One friend buys pumpkin and Oktoberfest beers when they start hitting stores in late July because he wants to believe that fall ...

Late summer and early fall might not seem like a very tropical time in Missouri, but it is the best season to find one of the last remaining pieces of the state’s tropical past. I’m talking about the ...

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark survived on paw paws as they traveled through the Northeast in the early 1800s. And Thomas Jefferson cultivated the fruit at Monticello. Don't Edit ...

Gardening 101: Fruit trees 02:13 (CBSNewsTexas.com) — To grow native is to greatly increase your odds of a having a successful plant. Native species have already proven for centuries, if not ...

Paw paws are the largest indigenous fruit grown in the continental United States."It's an exotic fruit that isn't exotic! It's native!" says Ted Ruesegger, a retired engineer who is on a one-man ...