Pawpaw - In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit Pest ” —Spencer B

” —Spencer B

forming a low mat of foliage

fish dishes and even ice cream and other desserts

Ripening Time: July-August

Author: Andrew Moore

Pawpaw - In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit Pest ” —Spencer BPawpaw In Search of Americas Forgotten Fruit Author: Andrew Moore The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet smelling, tropical flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of