September 04, 2024, 04:14 PM
cyberphobiaNew discovery for me, PawPaw fruits..
quote:Originally posted by ARman:
LoL.... I was just talking about PawPaws with a friend last night.
There are a couple of them down the road from me. One always produce fruits the other never.
They are pollenaded by Flys and beetls. The blooms smell yeasty or rotten meat. They will not self-pollenate. There's like 14 species. They are part of the soursop family and actually a tropical tree. Their range is the very southern Ontario Canada to the panhandle of Florida from the east coast into southeast Nebraska to Eastern Texas. They need shady rich bottomlands slops of floodplain.
They taste like banana, mango, and pineapple.
The PawPaw saved the Lewis and Clark expedition in September of 1806 on their return. They had ran out of provisions when they came upon a Grove. They were able to make the 150 mile trip to the closest outpost because of the PawPaw. They are high in vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, manganese, riboflavin, and iron, 1.5gr protein, 80 calories, 1.2gr fat 2.5gr fiber.
Oh yes the PawPaw....
I love them.
They only last about 3 to 4 days after being picked. Usually they rippen from September to early October. They are one of the first trees to turn colors, which is yellow. This is the time of year to look for the PawPaw. Look around and see if you can find a yellow leaves on a tree in floodplain, sloaps around creeks/rivers and that's a good chance that's a PawPaw.
ARman
