Pawpaw – Asimina triloba
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The largest edible wild fruit of North America: creamy flesh with a taste of banana and tropical fruit. Very hardy, the tree withstands −25 °C.
The pawpaw belongs to the Annonaceae family, that of the soursop and the cherimoya, yet it is exceptionally hardy. Its green fruits, shaped like a small mango, have earned it the nickname “mountain mango”. Their flavour deepens as they ripen: excellent fresh, in jam or in sorbet.
- Botanical name: Asimina triloba
- Origin: forests of eastern North America
- Hardiness: down to −25 °C
- Fruit: creamy flesh with a taste of banana and “tutti frutti”, increasingly fragrant as it ripens
- Flowering: six-petalled purple flowers in spring; golden-yellow foliage in autumn
- Pollination: plant at least two trees of different origins
- Mature size: small tree of about 5 m
In the garden
Light shade for the first two or three years, then sun. Deep, moist, rather acidic soil. Its long taproot copes poorly with transplanting: it is the ideal tree to plant young.
The plant you receive
A farm-grown plant raised outdoors at 1,000 m altitude in the Livradois-Forez Regional Nature Park: never in a heated greenhouse, fed with organic fertiliser only and grown following permaculture principles.
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The largest edible wild fruit of North America: creamy flesh with a taste of banana and tropical fruit. Very hardy, the tree withstands −25 °C.