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Gallery		      Family: Annonaceae - Custard-apple family
Latin name: Asimina triloba
Common name: Common Pawpaw

The Common Pawpaw often grows in patches.

The Common Pawpaw might be found as individual trees.

The sequence above shows the progression of the winter floral buds of the Asimina triloba.

Leaves are quite large. They are dark green in the summer and can give a brilliant display of yellow in the fall.

Pawpaw are capable of producing more than one fruit per flower, but in the summer of 2004 there was almost no fruit on the trees that I observed.
                   
Kingdom:  Plantae -- Plants
  Subkingdom:  Tracheobionta -- Vascular plants
  Superdivision:  Spermatophyta -- Seed plants
  Division:  Magnoliophyta -- Flowering plants
  Class:  Magnoliopsida -- Dicotyledons
  Subclass:  Magnoliidae
  Order:  Magnoliales
  Family:  Annonaceae -- Custard-apple family
  Genus:  Asimina Adans. -- pawpaw
  Species:  Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal -- pawpaw

Source for classification listing: USDA, NRCS. 2004. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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