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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

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.