Asimina triloba - Common Pawpaw

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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 P
									Species: Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal -- pawpaw P

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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