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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] zone 4 pawpaw update
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:16:27 -0500

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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