The fruit has sweet, yellow, custard-like flesh described as having a 'deliciously tropical' mango-banana flavour. Paw Paw is a small tree that produces hanging clusters of mango shaped fruit ( somewhat like banana) that matures its fruit in late October in our Canadian climate. Today the wild plants are almost extinct but there is renewed interest in the species since the US government recently allotted $20 million to research new varieties for their food, medicinal and horticultural value.
The PAW PAW is North America's largest native fruit and was found growing wild from the everglades in Florida to the shorelines of the great lakes.one northern area had so many trees growing in the region, it was named Pawpaw, Michigan and the fruit became known as the ' Michigan banana'.
