Pawpaw fruit on the trees at Kevin and Toni Larimore’s home in Paw Paw, part of the walking tour at the inaugural Pawpaw Festival on Sept. 28.

Paw paw (asimina triloba) is a modestly sized tree that produces the largest native North American fruit. It is deer resistant and produces flowers in April or May that will develop into fruit ...

Paw paw trees do not self-pollinate like other fruit trees, like peaches for example. You'll need to find two different cultivars to ensure that the burgundy flower of spring becomes the edible ...

Female pawpaw trees The flowers of the female tree grow in small clusters; they only have the female organ the pistil hence can only produce fruits if pollinated. If not pollinated they may ...

Dining Paw-paws: Everything you need to know about the fall fruit Published: Sep. 09, 2021, 1:36 p.m.

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 ...

The fruits are high in protein, vitamins, and minerals. Choose a planting site that provides about half a day of shade. If you’d like to buy from Stark, or just check their listings, go to ...

Harvesting Paw paws fruit 9-18 months after planting so give suitable climate. A good strategy is to harvest the fruit just before it ripens so pick it when it’s about two-thirds golden in ...

While paw paw trees were everywhere — they are a common understory species in these parts — very few bore fruit. This is true, generally, most years I go looking for paw paws.

Paw paw trees produce suckers but these can be removed to create a single, rather than multi-stemmed, tree. The flowers must be cross pollinated to bear fruit well.

This deciduous, slow-growing, pyramidal tree reaches 10 to 25 feet tall, with large, drooping leaves that turn yellow in fall. In May the tree has unusual, vivid-purple, cupped flowers, followed ...