Pawpaw:

The Common Name of Pawpaw is Paw Paw, Papaw, Poor Man's Banana, Hoosier Banana, etc.

The pawpaw is native to the moderate woodland of the eastern U.S. The American Indian is accredited with dispersal the pawpaw across the eastern U.S. to eastern Kansas and Texas, and from the Great Lakes approximately to the Gulf. Fossils demonstrate the pawpaw is indigenous to the U.S.

The pawpaw is the principal edible fruit native to America. Creature fruits weigh 5 to 16 ounces and are 3 to 6 inches in length. The superior sizes will emerge plump, similar to the mango.

The fruit more often than not has 10 to 14 seeds in two rows. The brownish to blackish seeds are wrought like lima beans, with a length of 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches. Pawpaw fruits time and again occur as clusters of up to nine entity fruits. The ripe fruit is spongy and thin skinned.