Pawpaw trees have long, oval-shaped leaves and can vary from short shrubs to 25-feet tall. The bark is light gray with a smooth texture that I’d compare to a beech tree. The fruit’s skin is green to ...

Or, if space and patience permit, there are plenty of places to buy plants and seeds online, so you could get some pawpaw ...

Bono and his wife, Judy, manage 52 pawpaw trees on land they rent at Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education, a regenerative agriculture nonprofit. Dick predicts well over 1,000 pounds of fruit ...

Pawpaw trees, or Asimina triloba, are cherished for their unique fruits and lush foliage, both of which can be seen in the images here. Recognized as the largest edible fruit grown in North ...

Pawpaw trees thrive in sunny, moist areas with rich, well-drained soil. The trees are commonly found in areas such as the bottoms of ravines, steep hillsides, and creek banks.

Several other pawpaw trees reside in the gardens surrounding the National Museum of the American Indian. Evich and his team currently oversee one pawpaw tree in the museum’s garden.

The pawpaw tree is shaped like a dense pyramid and can be up to 25 feet tall and 15 feet wide. It has smooth, gray bark and large, dark green leaves that hang down from its branches.

They planted 20 pawpaw trees two years ago and are now on a wait list to buy more. “We’re sticking with things that, as the weather changes and we get more floods and warmer temperatures, ...

Because pawpaw trees are native to the region, they have long been considered hardy. Chmiel is hoping that will help his remaining trees survive unpredictable weather and invasive species.

Their friend, Sam Mohnkern, who had procured the festival’s pawpaws from West Virginia, sold out of pawpaw trees, seedlings and whole fruit. The festival itself sold out of T-shirts before 11 a.m.

Foragers can sometimes be secretive about the best spots, but pawpaw trees are all over several of the area’s most-visited parks. Pawpaw groves give shade to many of the locks along the C&O Canal. On ...

Hermaphrodite pawpaw trees. The hermaphroditic flowers contain both a stamen and pistil that are fully functional, hence they do not require pollination to produce fruits.