No idea!

[ancjr]

Almost dropped another tree on this:





My gut feeling tells me I don't want to drop other trees on this. 

[mesquite buckeye]

You would be right, por que they are yummy. Pawpaw. ;D

[ancjr]

Oh my!  Funny how moving to another county introduces me to trees I've heard a lot about, but never seen!

[mesquite buckeye]

We have a little patch of them and one single on the other side of a draw. My young at the time nephew loved to whack things with a machete.  I just got out DON'T... and clink, it was down. Took 3 years to come back. He is 32 now and I still give him a hard time about it.   

[ancjr]

Well, I have to admit that it does look a little like something you'd whack with a machette if you were clearing a path in a jungle.   :D

[VT_Forestry]

Yup, it's a Pawpaw!  If you can keep the deer off of them, they are quite tasty

[WDH]

 

 

They can get rather large.  I have seen them with trunks up to 6" to 8" in diameter near the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. 

[OneWithWood]

Have a few that fruit every year on our ground.  We call it the 'Indiana Banana'.  Tastes a bit like custard.

[JRod]

I love the fruit, but the flowers are pollinated by carrion flies, so you need a dead animal or two around to get any. We've got a ton of pawpaw where I live, but hardly any ever has fruit.

[enigmaT120]

I used to have one in my back yard (a long ways from home!) but it never bore fruit.  It died on it's own.

[ancjr]

I have 1 (one) fruit on the pictured tree.  I showed it to the neighbor and he said he has quite a few of the trees but much as myself, never realized they were the legendary pawpaw that he had heard about since childhood.   

[SwampDonkey]

Your pawpaw is as legendary as our Canada plum. Don't find it too often and I have only seen it in settled areas. I believe it has a lot to do with the soil type and microclimate.