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Pawpaw
🗓 Season: August · September · October
🔍 When is it ripe?
Green skin turns slightly yellow and gives like a ripe avocado. Custard-like, mango-banana scented flesh inside. Falls at the slightest touch. Very short shelf life — refrigerate and eat within days. Found throughout eastern North America.
Pawpaw grove will be on your right as you walk from the bridge toward the central plaza with the Teddy Roosevelt statue. Pawpaw is the one the with the very large oblong leaves. They look like hickory leaves, except that pawpaw leaves are simple (hickory leaves are compound) and a bit larger.
Fruit is delicious, but not abundant. Low pollination limits productivity of pawpaws in the wild. Look on the ground for fallen fruit. Fruit will also be hanging in the trees, but it is often well camouflaged as, like the leaves, fruit is green and oblong.
Fruit is ripe when fragrant and yielding to pressure.
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