The Pawpaw Tree - A Complete Profile 

Excellent I have a paw paw Farm. I viewed this video with a critical eye. I found no errors

I have hundreds of Paw Paw trees on my 3 acre Loudoun County, Virginia property. I’ve only found about a half dozen that produce fruit, though. Picked one just the other day and ate it. The fruit was very sweet and the aroma was quite strong. The fruit was pale yellow inside and very creamy. The taste was a combo of mango, vanilla, and banana. The aroma was similar to trim or fruit loops cereal.

Growing up my dad would sing a little jingle every once in a while. It would end with "Way down yonder in the paw paw patch." I never knew they were an actual tree that produced paw paws until a year after he passed away. I was in my early 30s. I had visited a friend and one of his sons came walking up from the creek with a bag. He started eating this fruit and asked if id like a paw paw. All i could think was REALLY!!!! THIS WHOLE TIME DAD!!!!....... Great video

This long video kept my wife and me hooked for its entirety. We learned of Asimina Triloba about 4 years ago and are hooked and hooking others. We've germinated very many from seed and share the seedlings. We've also had success this year with cross pollinating wild pawpaws with a domesticated cultivar. We check on the 33 fruits progression biweekly.

A note about the pawpaws you have that are about 2 years old - you have them surrounded by Japanese stilt grass, which employs toxins that targets surrounding trees from growing well. It may be affecting the growth rate of your pawpaws.

Here in southern Ontario, pawpaw trees are very rare to find growing in the wild, but they are around. I just planted some bare root grafted trees this year and I'm looking forward to seeing how they do! If they survive long enough to produce fruit, I'm hoping to "accidentally" spread the seeds to some local park spaces, hehehe.

Hey, I really want to say, thank you for all of the content you've put out and continue to put out. I've learned a lot from you all and I appreciate you sharing your time and experience with me so I don't have to go through the same trials you went through 😅 Seriously! Thank you both for the information you share so freely.

Another fabulous, thorough resource. Appreciate your content!

Love the content Joe! Great resource for anyone interested in ecological landscaping. I'm in northeast Ohio so it's great to see someone who is also in zone 6. Native food webs are critical for my small organic no till farm structure. Appreciate the work on your channel and mission for education about native ecology.

South African pawpaws are completely different. The leaves are palmate, the trunks are hollow and rot if the top of the tree is lopped off. The fruit is like a large papaya and very yellow when ripe. The birds love them, so it's quite a feat to harvest a ripe one unscathed. It is the only tropical fruit I know which is low in sugar, thus ideal for diabetics. The seeds are very small and one only has to grab a spoonful from the centre of the fruit and plant them very close to the surface to be able to choose between plants within weeks and keep the strongest only. We used to liquidise the fruit with the pulp and juice of two oranges and have wonderful smoothies.

If you like curd jam, especially lemon curd, adding pawpaw pulp makes it taste so nice and tropical. In our area, there's pawpaws all over the place, at just about every stream bank. It's like a local tradition to go out and hunt during pawpaw season.

Loved this video.I went with my grandpa every year to pick paw paws.He knew the woods and where they grew.I wish I had paid more attention to all he tried to teach my sister and I.I haven’t tasted one in 60 years but have wonderful memories of them.Loved the big seeds .

I was gifted a dozen or so small saplings and some just started to flower after about 5 years. I'm hoping next year is the year for fruit!

Terrific information!!! Thanks so very much!

You’ve done it again Joe. If I had a channel it would have all of the EXACT content you produce. Thanks

LOVE YOUR VIDEO!!? I found a group of Paw Paws once in Louisiana. They are absolutely DELICIOUS!!! I am now in Missouri, where they SHOULD be ABUNDANT, however I have never been able to find any! I am still looking.....now I know a GREAT DEAL more, hopefully I will be able to identify some!!

I appreciate the quality and depth of your Papaw Pawpaw information! Thanks!

Thank you for including us CANCUCKS/Canadians in your video! Pawpaws have become popular throughout Canada! I live in Western Canada in zone 4b/5a, and they do great! The scientific info (jargon) - I especislly appreciate - along with cautions and encouragement to delve further, and conduct a “personal” investigation into ANY plant/food you intend to eat or share with others - including your darling Fido! Hope you are having a great summer! Currently, my homes province, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories are in a State of Emergency due to forest fires burning down homes, towns, and now it’s trying to rip through the capital city of Yellowknife, as fire fighter and volunteers alike are doing their utmost to save the city! We sent many Canadian fire fighters and First Responders south to the US, to help with California, and other fires, floods, massive mudslides, etc. Hopefully, we will receive some American help in kind. Let’s HOPE and pray that you will NOT experience anything on the scale of what we are coping with! Just trying to find temporary homes for the animals/pets belonging to the TENS of THOUSANDS of evacuees is a challenge ! Then we hav3 all the wildlife running scared into communities. Bears, moose, cougars, deer, elk, every kind of creature is fleeing the fires and have to go somewhere! Finallly, I feel for the farmers that tried to evacuate their animals, and those who had too many to relocate,, took turns as neighbours to feed, water, and provide shelter for every farm animal they could! I hope the majority made it, and somehow, this CRISIS and the others we have had in North America this year will wake up those who choose put their blinders on and pretend the world will be a much better place for the dear little ones, both human and animal! Not to be political, but I hope no one endures what we Canadians are enduring…AGAIN! In the meantime, I wish you a fantastic summer - may You and your daughter get your fill of PawPaws! Cheers🇨🇦😊🇺🇸

Excellent information and you have not left anything out. Thank you.

You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!

I heard that. Longtime gardener but new subscriber, always learning and your topics hit close to home (being just South of you). Going back through your catalog and looking forward to new videos. Best!

What an incredible video. This is a masterclass on pawpaws.

Fantastic job with the info in this video. Thank you.

Just went on a hike today with my wife and we found several excellent examples of its fruit. Just now getting home and can’t wait to dig in. Great video and I subbed. I’m in Missouri where paw paws are everywhere!

Great video! Thanks so much for taking the time!

Thank you for this info. I was recently given some Pawpaw seeds but didn’t know anything about growing them. Your video is very detailed and will help me.

Moving to North Carolina on 5 acres. Looking into types of edible tree I can grow. This popped up on a google search. Thank for this informational stream. I found it very helpful.

I heard that sweet voice at the end 😊 Thank you so much for sharing your thorough research and the wisdom from your experience! I have about 8 seedlings from seeds that i kept in the fridge over the winter. I lucked out having them germinate from the sparse info that i found on the internet about them. Your videos are soooooo helpful to native plant enthusiasts!

We have about a half dozen pawpaw trees (SW Ohio residents) and want to propagate them more than they've produced over the years. Glad we came across this video. Thank you for sharing and posting!

Another banger of a video, excellent work!

Excellent information. Thank you

Awesome information. Thank you so much.

The video alone was good enough for a sub. Your map with native tree nurseries is more than enough for a little cash on the side. I'll be tracking down and starting pawpaws myself, but it's always nice to know where a native focused nursery is and your map is an invaluable resource. Keep up the great work!!!

So thorough! Thank you.

amazing amount of information, very well presented. Thank you so much!

We have a couple dozen pawpaw trees on our property, but in the 30some years we've been here, we've never used them, but the animals have always enjoyed them. We've collected a few this year and plan to use them in bread. Thank you for the great video, sharing your knowledge and experience with pawpaw trees and their fruit it's greatly appreciated!

This was absolutely excellent!

Great video that has given me the confidence to go out to identify and hopefully harvest some Paw Paws!

Very educational. Thorough. Thank You. 🌿

I have two fruit producing trees, and three smaller ones on my property. Now that you have reminded me I will go and check them today.

Excellent video, thank you!

This is Great information . Thank You for posting!

Well done and very informative video! Thank you!

Spreading knowledge of the pawpaw is so important!!!!

Excellent information. Thank you! I am growing 6 from seed right now in Western NY.

Quality video as always, thank you. I have 3 pawpaw that we bought and planted 2 years ago. I saw a talk by one of the University of Kentucky growers that said they are fine in full sun once they get to the size of a sapling that the nurserys sell. So we planted ours in full sun, but I grew beans round their base to give them a little shade as insurance. One is struggling due to being ran over by a landscaper :/ but the other 2 have grown quickly. I understand it can be 7 years before you get any fruit, but we got our first flower this year which was magical to see!

One of the best videos an Paw Paw trees. Thanks

Thank you!!! I love pawpaw and I’m anxiously waiting for my trees to bear fruit. I have some from a nursery and some from seed. ❤

Amazing presentation/narration

I've planted 7 pawpaw trees on my property in Western NY near the Niagara river. Hopefully ill have some fruit in a few years. I also managed to grow 21 from seeds using the winternsowong method this past winter. I'm sharing thr sapplings with local organizations and native plant stores. As always, great video and i really appreciate the work you put into them!

As a long time paw paw owner (3 trees are more than enough fruit for us) I always throw my overripe fruit in my mulch bin and each spring pull handful of saplings out as they sprout.

Wow! Who would'a thought!!! Nice video, excellent info and photography. You, Sir, have done a very good job in getting the Pawpaw tree out to all of us primary students! Thank you so much!!!

Thank you for sharing information about mango farming which is very useful

Great information! Thank you😊

Very useful info, thank you

Very thorough. Well done as usual!

I heard that sweet voice and I was just as excited when I had my first paw paws this year! I was happily able to clean up a gal’s yard and that included many wasted fruit and later hours worth of black walnut harvesting! I have planted many paw paw seeds, but could not find anywhere the reference to keep them moist, so glad I found your video. Likely many will not germinate, but hopefully I’ll get some! It was quite a treat for me and I appreciate gleaning more from this thorough video, I am now a new subscriber and it looks like I have so much more to learn from your videos and blogging! Thank you kindly for all your efforts…

❤😊 when I was an elementary school around the age of eight to 10 years of age we sang a song call where oh where is dear little Mary? Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch picking up pawpaws putting them in a basket. The school I attended was located in Charleston California. We had 2000 English walnut trees, 10 pecan trees, and fewer than 1000 black walnut trees. The fruit Of the pawpaw tree sounds delicious. You are website is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.😊

I'm convinced there's several near me in north Georgia. I purchased a small tree but it hasn't done very well. Hard for me to find any flowers & I never see fruit. My forbe ID is much better than my tree ID skills. Thanks for this! Edit: the homeowner practices of removing understory trees to "decrease the competition with canopy trees" has done tons of damage IMO. The purpose of understory trees isn't taught, it should be!

What a fantastic video! Not only do you present rich content, you also are a well organized speaker. I am a retired teacher and recognize a very professional, clear presentation.

As a child my Dad worked putting in pipelines in Southern Michigan. On a visit with him ,he brought home Michigan Bananas, I later learned these were Pawpaws. And yes it was in Pawpaw, Michigan. :)

Great video! We are getting two of these trees next week!

This was fascinating! It's on my Bucket List to see a real Pawpaw and eat the fruit.

thank you for sharing❤

thanks for the informational video! I might give this a try this fall.

this video is an excellent resource to learn about pawpaws. well done. my local county cooperative extension did a seminar on pawpaws. they invited local tree nursery growers to sell some pawpaws they've been propogating. of course i bougth a few trees.

A great place in Canada to buy Pawpaw trees for colder temps is called Green Barn Farm. You buy them over the winter for Spring and their trees are rated for -40C. We plan to buy some this year and plant them. Your video just reminded me! Thx for all the info too.

thanks for your hard work

Thanks so much for the info. Just what I needed to know!

There are a number of uses for pawoaws. I made pawpaw muffins this year & have made frozen custard & quickbread in the past.

very helpful! thanks

Great presentation!

Thank you for this!!

5:40 KSU has good info on pawpaws and I've heard them say that if you want a good chance at transplanting a sucker you should cut it in the ground with a shovel then leave it a whole year before digging it up. I have several pawpaws I transplanted as seedlings and I am suspicious that two were suckers because they had a really long, eventually severed tap root. They've both been very productive the one has put on nearly 4 foot in its first year.

Great clip. PawPaw sounds so delicious, that's unbelievable.

I found a wild patch below our cabin near the river. Sadly I couldn't find any pawpaw fruit this season. Good video full of interesting details.

This was a GREAT video, I'm in Prince William co Va and in wooded areas near streams ,ponds etc,this is very common.The Zebra swallowtail is seen alot in the spring in my area due to the abundence of this small tree and is s very BEAUTIFUL butterfly.I encourage people to plant this native fruit tree more.

Excellent video!!!

Great profile, I purchase 2 bare root trees this spring and both are doing well. I live in the Niagara Region in Canada and we are the northern most region for the Paw Paw to grow naturally. With your information I hope to grow a few more from seed. Thanks Tara & Joe for the great work you both do! Jeff

I taught my son what the look like and he went on a field trip and said there was a huge grove . Every year I can pick 30 lbs or more here in va. It is fairly popular hiking trail and most don’t know what they are. Probaly 300lbs or more rot every year when they fall to the ground

An excellent video, thank you very much!!

Learned about these from my stepdad while fishing. Good stuff

Love this video

Outstanding. I currently have 5 saplings which are all under 9 inches tall so I have a long way to go. I've grown a lot of tropical fruits from seed including mango, avocado, orange, lemon, passion fruit, lulu and a few others and Pawpaw's are as difficult as I have seen LOL. I'm in Eastern Ontario which may be too north for them to grow but I'm going to try. Great information. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁

I heard that! I have two paw paw trees and while I hope for fruit in a few years, I find they pretty unusual landscape trees as well.

Attention: You failed to mention that dehydrating ripe pawpaw fruit turns them into a fast-acting emetic, and eating a small piece of dried pawpaw flesh will result in profuse vomiting and diarrhea within 15-20 minutes. Because they tend to ripen all at once, I dried about 20 lbs of ripe flesh in my dehydrator, thinking they would be like dried mango slices. The result tasted great, but both my wife and I were stuck in the bathroom for a few hours afterward. The dried fruit is very toxic, so don't make my mistake.

I heard that, and it made me smile!

Thanks you! You were super thorough. My husband can spot paw paws very easily but I always have a hard time

I learned a lot, thank you

Thank you ❤️

SO WELL EXECUTED, As The Saying in New England is Spoken: "The Finest Kind" ~♡~ Thank You

EXCELLENT! Thx

Thank you!

Good video. Thank you. I heard that!☺️

THANK YOU!

That was very interesting to watch, lots of good information. As you described the pawpaw's native growing conditions I kept thinking that they'd feel right at home in parts of Germany. The forest right outside our village contains many of the genera you mentioned, though some of course are not native here. Downhill the forest also gets progressively wetter, ultimately ending in a moist, shallow valley. It's nice to think what could grow there. Thanks for sharing this detailed video, cheers

I've found that damp sand is great for cold stratification in the refrigerator without mold.

wow love it

The Nashville 2 River Park right in the Tennessee River has a spot with these next to a water fall, right before the bridge go down the trail on the right

Very professional. Thank you very much. Please do one on persimmon native to the US😊