Asiminier biography

North American Genus of fruit trees

This article is about the various species of pawpaws in the American plant genus Asimina. For the common pawpaw of eastern North America, see Asimina triloba.

For the unrelated tropical papaya fruit often called papaw or pawpaw, see Carica papaya.

Pawpaw pronunciation

For other uses, see Paw Paw (disambiguation).

Asimina is a genus of small trees or shrubs described as a genus in ^[2][3]Asimina is the only temperate genus in the tropical and subtropical flowering plant family Annonaceae.^[4]Asimina have large, simple leaves and large fruit.

It is native to eastern North America and collectively referred to as pawpaw. The genus includes the widespread common pawpaw Asimina triloba, which bears the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States.^[5] Pawpaws are native to 26 states of the U.S.

and to Ontario in Canada.^[5][6] The common pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal)understory tr