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Anybody know what this is in the woods?....

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OliverGuy

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I know it"s a crummy picture, but I"m sure many of you know. Walked into the woods after looking at the corn today and saw this one. Many more down in this rich bottom land back in this small valley. It"s a paw paw or "Indiana Banana". Sure enough, tastes like banana pudding when it"s ripe.
pawpaw.jpg
 
Remember when Lafe Krick brought the paw paw tree all the way out to Beverly Hills for Granny Clampett?
 
Yep... Paw-Paw..Also know as Indiana Banana. I havnt seen one of those in 30+ years!Maybe some of the chemicals used on the farm killed them off?? When I was young ,we used to pick them when they were green and bury them in the oats bin to ripen.Really tasty. Oh the good old days!
 
This is in west to NW IN. Don't see too many here except for protected bottomlands with good soil. I'm not sure how far north they go?
 
my dad planted one of those behind the dam about 35 years ago...aint ever made fruit but its still alive...if it can take Texas heat like we had this summer its a stout plant.
 
sure do, have that episode on DVD, think its the same one where Krick brought his pretty "little" thing daugther out to marry up with Jethro. Oh, by the way, Granny was a Moses, Daisy May Moses, not a Clampett by name.
 
Nice to see, They grow within 4 miles of the southern tip of lake michigan, From Plants Profile.com, the range is from the souther tip of Texas and Florida to Hudson bay!! Astounding!
Not all the way North East, but Not west of Western edge of SD, and not into MN. Jim
 
I picked one from one of my small trees last fall and planted some of the seeds but none grew.

Perhaps thee seeds were not fertile.

Dean
 
I live in NW Indiana and you could find them in almost every woods when I was growing up. Thats been 50+ years ago but haven't seen a paw paw in a long time.I tried eating a ripe paw paw and it is like a banana but to me it was bitter.
 
seem to grow the best fruit around Parkersburg & the Ohio Valley. Planted them in Lewis County about 20 yrs. ago but never saw any fruit on them there.
 
They grow in NW Ohio, 20 miles east of Indiana and 20 miles south of Michigan. I'm sure they are further north than that, but it's the grove I know of since I was a kid.

Tim
 

I used to see them in mail order nursery catalogs. And it would also tell the climate zone they'll grow in.
You can probably find all that info online, now-a-days.

When I was a kid they would be mostly growing in bottomlands along the creeks.
I would imagine nurseries would have a better and more productive strain than the wild ones. You would have to buy both male & female plants.
 

Now I got this song in my head the next couple of weeks.......................

Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.....
 
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