Pawpaw, Custard Apple Scientific Name: Asimina triloba
Description: A shrub or small tree 10-40' high, with a maximum trunk diameter of about 10". Bark commonly light sepia brown, deep ruddy gray and smooth when young, rough and with ashen patches when old. The branches are slender and spreading.
Habitat: Found in swampy or alluvial rich soil.
Range: From western New York and eastern Pennsylvania, west to the north shores of Lake Huron, southern Michigan, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas, and southward to central Florida and the Sabine River, Texas.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Wendy VanDyk Evans from www.forestryimages.org. |
