Pawpaw
In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit
by Andrew Moore
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As fruits go, the pawpaw is about as unique, historically important, and yet mysteriously undervalued as it gets. Despite an impressive resume, most people have probably never heard of the pawpaw, let alone bit into one. If you haven't yet eaten a pawpaw, Moore's lively and inquisitive book will have you seeking out the nearest pawpaw patch
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There is a 2017 book about them: Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit by Andrew Moore https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20012930W/Pawpaw I have not read it yet but almost bought it when I first learned about them.
on “Ted's Notes on Pawpaws” ↗I read about an effort to do this in the 1950s (IIRC, it was in Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit by Andrew Moore, but I could be wrong about that) and as I remember it, most of the radiated seeds were either sterile or produced deformed offspring.
on “Will plants grow on the moon?” ↗