when pawpaw come ripe i eat 3-5/day for those weeks. Nov 5 2022 ate last pawpaw b4 going South. Nov 2 2021 snowbirded to FL b4 any got ripe. i wash the white stuff [saponin?] off sometimes as it is bitter/soapy taste to me. sometimes i eat one right off the ground if i'm walking away from house/water. i eat the skin [ tart counterpoint to the sweet pulp]. sometime i spit the seeds at targets a la watermelon. my tree was damaged one year by a branch falling from a large elm tree nearby, many saplings appeared the next year. i now have a pawpaw patch! Butterfly ?zebra swallowtail likes pawpaw. i have never seen bugs on fruit on the tree. wash pawpaw in bucket of water and use that for insect repeller maybe? local brewer will make pawpaw beer.
i think pawpaw look like schmo depicted in Al Capp cartoons in ancient Sunday funnies newspaper section [Daisy Mae et al ]. aha Lil' Abner, Joe Bltzzfkk, who else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrDPVMO4p-8
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