[NAFEX] zone 4 pawpaw update
mIEKAL aND
qazingulaza at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 21:16:27 EDT 2010
Is this at the planting at the McKay Center? How would I find it? I
wanna have a look & I'll be in town in the next few weeks. Everytime
I collect there I get yelled at tho...
~mIEKAL
On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:31 AM, loneroc wrote:
> The U of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison has Iowa "native" pawpaws
> that ripen every year and, based on my few tastes, are small but
> were tropical custardy in flavour. In one of my chats with the
> Director Emeritus, Ed Hasselkus, he said that there was a reasonable
> possibility that the Iowa plants originated from seeds spat out by
> railroad passengers since the plants are generally found near the
> tracks. Of course pawpaws are often found in river bottoms, just
> where tracks run, so the distributional correlation could merely be
> coincidence.
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