Re: Imagine this!

I have a stand of native pawpaws in my yard.  When I can get one before the
squirrels, the interior is pale yellow with large seeds and a banana taste.
The fruit is smooth on the outside, green, and rather in the shape of a
fat, more rounded banana.


> [Original Message]
> From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 12/23/2007 8:13:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Imagine this!
>
> Yeah, they're both Annonas, but I've never seen or tasted a pawpaw, so 
> I can't say how similar they are*. The sugar apple, also known as 
> "sweetsop" in the Caribbean, is really lumpy [lobed] rather than 
> scaly**. Each lobe is the exteror end of a segment that is quite like 
> an orange segment, separated by thin membranes. And each segment has 
> one seed. The seeds, as Kitty wrote, are black and shiny, about the 
> size of watermelon seeds, but plumper. The seeds are also somewhat 
> toxic--not exactly poisonous, but they'll give you the runs if you 
> swallow them.
>
> * Pawpaws, while native to the woodlands of most of the eastern US, are 
> not native this far south. The University of Kentucky has a breeding 
> program to develop this native fruit into a marketable crop. There are 
> apparently two issues with the native fruit--one, the variation in 
> quality is nearly equal to the variation in plants and, more 
> importantly [from a marketing point of view], shelf-life is very short.
>
> ** There are lots of other Annonas grown in the subtropcs/tropics, 
> some, such as the cherimoya, even turn up in Wal-Mart's produce section 
> now and then. The cherimoya is scaly. Others, such as the custard apple 
> and the [native] pond apple are also scaly. But the atemoya--a 
> naturally occurring cross between the cherimoya and the sugar apple 
> [and by far the most popular Annona in subtropical Florida]--is lobed 
> like its sugar apple parent.
>
> More than you wanted to know, I'm sure.
>
> On Dec 23, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Related to Pawpaws?
> >
> > Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >
> > On Dec 23, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Kitty wrote:
> >
> >> a tropical American tree (Annona squamosa) of the custard-apple
> >> family; also : its edible sweet pulpy fruit with thick green scaly
> >> rind and shining black seeds
> >>
> >> Not familiar with it. But sounds good.
> >>
> >> Kitty
> >> neIN, Zone 5
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer"
> >> <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> >> To: "Garden Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:36 PM
> >> Subject: [CHAT] Imagine this!
> >>
> >>
> >>> This morning while wandering around the plantation, I found a ripe
> >>> sugar apple on one of our two trees. It's about 2 months late for
> >>> sugar apples, so who knows what's going on. Anyway, I just ate it;
> >>> delicious.
> >>>
> >>> Island Jim
> >>> Southwest Florida
> >>> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> >>> Hardiness Zone 10
> >>> Heat Zone 10
> >>> Sunset Zone 25
> >>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >>>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Sunset Zone 25
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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