asimina

Carica papaya and Asimina triloba are not particularly closely related.

I understand the idea, but Asimina triloba is an Eastern US endemic native.

How do they compare with different Asimina triloba cultivars?

- Asimina genus: Comprises several US natives of fruit trees.

My father is involved with developing the PawPaw (Asimina Triloba) into a commercially viable fruit.

Asimina triloba (Paw paw), is the most famous and looks just like a smooth potato.

The Pawpaw/Carica papaya (called Papaya in North America), the Mountain Pawpaw/Vasconcellea pubescens, and the American Pawpaw/Asimina triloba (which this article is about).

Asimina is too short, parse and wide and spreads from the root.

Asimina is temperate and can live in areas with snow.

(Survives -30 degrees) "It belongs to the genus Asimina in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop."

Same family, different genus (Annona and Asimina).

Asimina and mulberry aren't good for sidewalks.

(Survives -30 degrees) "It belongs to the genus Asimina in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop."

Most of them recognizable easily by having a skin sculpted with "scaly" marks, or thorns like a pineapple: Sugar apple, soursop, sweetsop, Atemoya, also a genus in temperate areas, Asimina.

According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]." So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.

My father is involved with developing the PawPaw (Asimina Triloba) into a commercially viable fruit.

Asimina triloba (Paw paw), is the most famous and looks just like a smooth potato.

The Pawpaw/Carica papaya (called Papaya in North America), the Mountain Pawpaw/Vasconcellea pubescens, and the American Pawpaw/Asimina triloba (which this article is about).