Thursday, September 29, 2016
PAWPAW!
Finally! We found pawpaw!
The Arboretum is having pawpaw parties, where you can come and taste the fruit and–if you want–take seeds home to propagate.
Here are the fruits, plucked from trees in the Arboretum:
And here is what the insides look like. The pawpaw on the left is less ripe, the fruit on the right is more ripe.
The fruit really doesn’t taste like anything else grown in WV, and certainly not something growing wild.
If you have seeds, here is how to propagate pawpaw.