Flowering Branch of Asimina Triloba

Sample illustration of flowering Asimina Triloba.

Description of Botanical Illustration: Asimina triloba, the pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or common pawpaw, is a species of Asimina (the pawpaw genus) in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop. The pawpaw is native to the Eastern, Southern, and Midwestern United States and adjacent southernmost Ontario, Canada, from New York west to southeastern Nebraska, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. The pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottom-land and hilly upland habitat, with large, simple leaves and large fruits. The paw paw is the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States. Read more . . .

• Planting Paw Paw Fruit Trees 
• What is a Paw Paw Fruit and Why You Can't Buy Them
• The creamy North American banana

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