Getty Images: krblokhin Every late summer into early fall in Virginia, my dad keeps a watchful eye on the Pawpaw trees in his backyard, waiting patiently for them to drop their speckled green fruits.

Stretching from Ontario to South Florida, pawpaw trees thrive along the East Coast. However, in regions like Ohio—home to an annual pawpaw festival—and Kentucky, growers are noting some ...

One day, while in the secondary school, our agric science teacher came into the class and started discussing pawpaw and she told us that it is botanically called Carica papaya. We found the name ...

Western New York is considered the very fringe of the pawpaw tree’s northern range. But as climate change brings warmer temperatures and more erratic weather to the region, a small but growing ...

Libbey grows 100 pawpaw trees and said she was surprised to see the fruit dropping from trees in the first week of August instead of mid-September. "I had walked into the orchard to do my regular ...

Libbey grows 100 pawpaw trees and said she was surprised to see the fruit dropping from trees in the first week of August instead of mid-September. "I had walked into the orchard to do my regular ...

Particularly unique is the pawpaw (Asimina triloba). This fruit tree is found throughout the Washington area and is relatively well-represented in the museum’s collection. Nearly 200 herbarium ...

Libbey grows 100 pawpaw trees and said she was surprised to see the fruit dropping from trees in the first week of August instead of mid-September. “I had walked into the orchard to do my ...

Libbey grows 100 pawpaw trees and said she was surprised to see the fruit dropping from trees in the first week of August instead of mid-September. "I had walked into the orchard to do my regular ...

Abbey Duke had never tasted a pawpaw fruit in 2010 when she planted four pawpaw trees on the small Intervale farm associated with her South Burlington-based Sugarsnap Catering. Since starting the ...

JennaRose Wild (center) hands out free samples of pureed pawpaw fruit during Duncansville’s inaugural Pawpaw Festival on Sunday at Duncansville Memorial Park. Free samples were halted after the ...