Tall FLOWERING Pawpaw Fruit Tree (4+ feet tall) - Tropical Fruit Native to USA
**You are purchasing a tall pawpaw tree (4+ feet tall) that has already flowered! The tree you purchase may not be the exact tree pictured, but it will be equivalent in size.Asimina triloba, the American papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among countless regional names, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States and Canada, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit. Asimina is the only temperate genus in the tropical and subtropical flowering plant family Annonaceae, and Asimina triloba has the highly northern range of all. This makes it America's native tropical fruit! Well-known tropical fruits of different genera in family Annonaceae include the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang, and soursop.The pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree of hardwood forests, which is found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottomland and also hilly upland habitat. Pawpaw fruits are the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States.