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Old 17-02-2004, 06:03 PM
 
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Default How to Find Pawpaws in the Wild?

I would say almost impossible with that tap root. Ingrid

"David J Bockman" wrote:

According to Dirr (I'm going to have to make a new acronym, ATD), Asimina
triloba (Common Pawpaw, Custard Apple) is indigenous from New York to
Florida, west to Nebraska and Texas. (Introduced 1736). Asminia parviflora
is indigenous in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain from Virginia to Mississippi
and east Texas.

I find them with regularity (although they are solitary trees or small
clumps usually) in dry hardwood stands and lowlying (riverbottom) areas,
almost always in fertile soil (lots of leaf mold present) here in Virginia.

FWIW, ATD they are difficult to transplant unless quite young (6').

Dave



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