Our Pawpaw seeds are from LARGE fruited, grafted trees that will produce larger fruit than wild pawpaws. Our seeds are cold hardy and ripen in the north before frost. Also called “Michigan Banana”, Pawpaw is a large, sweet, tropical fruit that is easy to grow. Native to North America, Paw Paw is a beautiful small tree that produces large quantities of delectable fruits in the fall. Flesh is creamy, light yellow, custard like and reminiscent of the flavor of banana. We love to eat them straight off of the tree (don’t eat the skin or seeds). Also fabulous served with a contrasting tart fruit such as fall red raspberries or currants. Pulp can be preserved by freezing. Trees will grow in full sun to part shade, are deer resistant (be sure to protect young trees), and can grow under walnut trees. Grows in USDA zones 5-8. Pawpaw Tree's native range is Michigan to Georgia but the best, largest fruited and most cold-hardy strains hail from Michigan. Our seeds come from some of these Michigan strains. These N&N Pawpaw seeds are offspring of cold hardy, northern adapted trees. These seeds are from fruit collected from the trees of Overleese, Davis, Prolific, Sunflower, Sibley and Lynn's Favorite plus some trees that came from our fruit and nut mentor from Flint, MI, Gordon Nofs who gave us seeds from his trees in 2002 which went on to produce trees with large, great tasting fruit. Paw Paws are listed on the Slow Food Ark of Taste. ONLY AVAILABLE IN FALL. (Oct & Nov) PLANT IN FALL (Oct/Nov).
