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triloba

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

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

Example sentences

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

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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).

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Carica papaya and Asimina triloba are not particularly closely related.

4

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

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How do they compare with different Asimina triloba cultivars?

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If you can track on down in the UK I'd feverishly recommend Pawpaw (Asimina triloba), a custardy fruit with such tropical flavor you'd be shocked it is native to North America.

Quote examples

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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.

Proper noun examples

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Another plant that grows plentifully here certain months of the year is Ipomoea Triloba.

2

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

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