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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

That sounds about right. I know of 3 wild populations, 2 are near Ann
Arbor, and another west of Grand Rapids in a beautiful floodplain.
Never seen fruit or flowers on any of them, they are all growing in
quite a bit of shade. Of course I haven't always been there at the
right time.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org> wrote:
> According to the map in "Trees in Canada" the native range of pawpaw in
> Michigan extends north to roughly the latitude of Lake St. Clair, and along
> the Lake Michigan shore roughly to about the latitutde of Grand Rapids, with
> a small outlying population a few miles more or less west of Saginaw.
>
> Possibly the Michigan Nut Growers Association might be abe to provide more
> information:
>
> http://www.michigannutgrowers.org
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario
>
>
>
> On 23/01/2011 11:42 PM, Ernest Plutko wrote:
>>
>> Near Allegan, Michigan.  No doubt about ID.
>>
>> ---- Original Message ----
>> From: ehills7408@wowway.com
>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] paw paw
>> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:07:52 -0500
>>
>>> Where in Southern Michigan?  I honestly don't find myself wandering
>>> the
>>> woods frequently enough, but I would find it interesting to know
>>> where a
>>> (presumably) wild tree (or at least likely untended) had managed to
>>> grow.
>>>
>>> Scott Hills
>>> Zone 6b Michigan
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>>> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ernest Plutko
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 6:27 PM
>>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>>> Subject: [NAFEX] paw paw
>>>
>>> Let us all get back to the important topic of paw paws.  I have only
>>> seem one paw paw tree.  It was in the woods of southern Michigan.  I
>>> was walking in the woods looking at trees and found this small tree
>>> with odd leaves.  Looked at it for a while and finally recognized a
>>> paw paw tree.  It had a few small fruit.
>
> [snip]
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