Paw Paws!

[BTL]

Found a bunch the last couple weekends. I let them ripen and then made a pie. Still have a lot more left, think bread will be next.

I also found a few oyster mushrooms but nothing to write home about.

[JP Z]

What is a Paw Paw? You have me interested I might say! Good find!

[pushbutton]

Huh, no clue either....yep, so whats the scoop?

[JP Z]

Found Something!

In the book, Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, one finds the Pawpaw fruit called "...a natural custard, too luscious for the relish of most people. The fruit is nutritious and a great resource to the savages." Millspaugh, in American Medicinal Plants, describes the fruit as "soft, sweet and insipid, having a taste somewhat between that of the May-apple and the banana, tending to the former." The Peterson Field Guide mentions that the seeds, along with being an emetic, have narcotic properties.

[pushbutton]

Kind of catch 22 on the seeds then

[pushbutton]

BTL is trolling us.....just did a little cell phone search and hardy out to about zone 5. Bummer for us highlanders, but good for him Got a little excited there for a few minutes, but won't enjoying any of that paw paw pie anytime soon. Just razzing ya bud, where ya from? Still would like to hear more about them......

[JP Z]

1200 miles east of MN.............so in Paw Paw land!

[BTL]

What is a Paw Paw? You have me interested I might say! Good find!

They're a wild North American fruit that tastes like a cross between a mango and a banana. They're only really harvestable for a couple weeks a year. We get them either by picking from low-hanging branches, or by shaking the (usually skinny) trees until they fall. They get about as big as a pear, but most are smaller. I've only ever found them growing along rivers.

I'm in VA, but I honestly I thought they grew in Minnesota too. I've heard they're fairly popular in Indiana and Illinois.

[jentz]

I have been going to plant a couple PawPaw trees.If anyone is interested I thing arborday foundation offers them,so do some mail order nurseries.They naturally never made it to mn.Ohio is where I learned of them.They will grow here in zone4 of the gardening zones.