
Pruning Information: Pruning may be required on Paw Paw trees constituting eight feet or more in size so as to comport with UPS Shipping requirements. Delivery time can not be guaranteed, if a package needs to arrive prior to a specific date please note in the comment section of the order or contact Ty Ty Nursery by telephone during normal business hours. The actual delivery time will usually be within four to seven days following the date of shipping by Ty Ty Plant Nursery. This aroma attracts paw paw fruit collectors reliably every season to gather the delicious fruit for fresh eating right off the branches, or for taking to the kitchen to bake into memorable holiday custards.ĭelivery Time: Deciduous Fruit Trees ordered during their current shipping season (usually December through April) are shipped dormant within ten days of the date of order, weather dependent. The Louis and Clark explorers found Paw Paw trees growing throughout the Midwest United States and ate paw paws on their many explorations. Sliced chilled Paw Paws became the favorite dessert of Thomas Jefferson, and President Jefferson and George Washington established their own Paw Paw orchards at Monticello and Mount Vernon, VA. The fruit is sweet to taste when ripe, but if left on the paw paw tree during the Winter will turn brown or black in color. The color of a ripe paw paw can vary from green to bright yellow. Very often cooks will substitute in recipes for banana pudding. For fresh eating the paw paw is delicious and spicy, and it is very frequently baked into desserts and in some states it is brewed into paw paw beer. The Paw Paw tree is a native plant to the United States and was discovered by DeSoto who found Paw Paw trees growing by the Indians in the year 1541 in Mississippi. Paw Paw Trees are rare American native trees that produce fruit with flavor and texture most similar to a banana.Paw Paws hanging from trees emit a banana fragrance and taste sweet. The summer ripening green fruit pods sometimes remain green when fully ripened but sometimes are transformed into faded yellow. Fruits like those seen and admired by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Early American pilgrims found the native paw paw trees growing everywhere in Pennsylvania, when they arrived, a delicious fruit heavily hanging from densely leafed trees, fruits weighing as much as 2 pounds each in huge clusters. Paw Paw Trees require a second pollinator tree for fruit production and can be harvested around September to October. Paw Paw Tree flowers are pungent causing most pollination by flies and beetles. As the paw paw tree matures its crop, a sweet fragrance of ripe bananas drifts from the tree. and in early fall giant clusters of paw paws mature on trees, some individual fruits weighing in weighing as much as two pounds each. Paw Paw trees are native trees to the Atlantic Coastal States.

The Paw Paw fruit is soft and tasty like banana custard and pleasingly aromatic like ripe bananas. The native American Paw Paw tree is a cold hardy fruit tree that grows all the way northwards to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
