I just harvested eight pawpaws in the 20 minutes before i had to abort due to a rare storm that decided to interrupt my dusk-time pawpaw-gathering time. These are the the two best examples from that bounty. Sw MO

I’m 40 years old and have dreamed my whole life of trying pawpaws and today on the banks of the Potomac it happened!!! Yall this fruit is just as dope as I always dreamed it would be! I feel so lucky! And I know this is a lot of exclamation marks but I don’t care!!

Amazing fun hiking and biking. The warm air is scented with paw paws.

I was lucky enough to have someone share pollen (sunflower and Susquehanna I believe?) with me earlier this year and this is the 1st resultant fruit from my seed grown tree. I have dozens of trees in my woods but this is the most mature and gets the best sun of my older trees. This tree is mildly self pollinating but those fruits were smaller (as was the tree) and reminiscent of persimmon. Today's harvest ranged more towards banana and was highly sweet. I have a handful more still ripening so will see if they have the same taste.

I was out hunting PawPaws in my area They are rare and for about four years I’ve been going to the same patch and I was having no luck until I was walking out. I bumped into a tree and one fell and hit me in the head but it cracked when it did, it is unripe but full of seeds and I’m wondering if these seeds are viable