WESH: Pittsburghers preserve pawpaw trees, some hoping it'll lead to more zebra swallowtail butterflies

On a wooded hillside along the banks of the Allegheny River, Gabrielle Marsden brushed up against an oblong leaf: Asimina triloba. The American pawpaw.The deciduous tree bears North America’s largest ...

Pittsburghers preserve pawpaw trees, some hoping it'll lead to more zebra swallowtail butterflies

WTAE-TV: Pittsburghers preserving pawpaw trees, some hope it will lead to more zebra swallowtail butterflies

Pittsburghers preserving pawpaw trees, some hope it will lead to more zebra swallowtail butterflies

Civil Eats: The Pawpaw, a Beloved Native Fruit, Could Seed a More Sustainable Future for Small Farms

As the sun beats down from a cloudless morning sky across Horn Farm in York, Pennsylvania, Dick Bono ambles among his pawpaw trees, admiring their pale green fruits like a proud parent. In late July, ...

The Pawpaw, a Beloved Native Fruit, Could Seed a More Sustainable Future for Small Farms

MassLive: ‘Pawpaw fever’: Meet the people in WMass growing a fruit you’ve never heard of

HOLYOKE — In the backyard of a city home is an unexpected sight: 14 trees with what look like clusters of green mango-shaped fruits hanging from the branches. They’re pawpaws, a fruit with a ...

‘Pawpaw fever’: Meet the people in WMass growing a fruit you’ve never heard of

Asimina triloba, the American papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among many regional names, is a species of small deciduous tree. It has large leaves and produces a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit. The species is native to eastern North America, in a more temperate range than its tropical relatives. It is a patch -forming (clonal) understory tree of hardwood forests, being found in well ...