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[Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>]

No, pawpaws are not tropical plants. They will not
grow in the tropics and are not native to the tropics.
Try growing one in the tropics. It will die.

I have a half dozen paw paw trees in my backyard. It
grows well here because it is a temperate tree.

An apple growing in Africa is still a temperate plant.
A pawpaw growing in Africa is still a temperate plant.

The fact that a pawpaw has tropical relatives does not
make it a tropical plant. Persimmons have tropical
relatives. They are still temperate plants.



--- BekeeprTop@aol.com wrote:

> Yes, they are tropical plants.  Paw paws are the
> only appearance by their 
> plant family in the north.  In fact, a member of its
> family from the tropics is a 
> major commercial fruit - what's that the Cherimoya? 
> Have you seen Paw paws 
> trees?  They look tropical.  Have you tasted the
> fruit? They taste tropical.  
> If it talks like a duck, and walks like a duck, its
> probably a duck.
> 
> If an apple is grown in tropical africa, one would
> hardly call it a 
> "tropical" tree.  One would describe it as a
> "temperate climate" tree that had an 
> unusual appearance in a tropical area.  There was an
> apple that was adapted to/bred 
> in Isreal what's that the Ein Shemier? It was
> adapted by requiring fewer 
> chill hours for its bud to break - one certainly
> wouldn't therefore conclude the 
> apple was a tree of the Middle Eastern desert.
> 
> We had cactus growing here in Massachusetts for 5
> years.  The Connecticut 
> Agricultural Experiment Station has a circular
> garden with a very lush, 
> successful cactus plant, would you then describe
> cactus as a plant of maritime 
> Connecticut?  
> Charlie Paradise
> 
> << Paw paws are certainly not tropical plants but
> the
> fruit they produce is described by many to be
> "tropical" since its taste and texture is more
> similar
> to many tropical fruits than to most temperate
> fruits. >>
> 
> <


 
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