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Pawpaw means two plants in different families?

Have we not a tangled thread here? I believe there are
 two Pawpaws.
	1) Carica papaya L. a tropical pithy tree of 
single trunk that looks a bit like a palm tree. Originally 
from Central America, spread by the Conquistadores
throughout the Carribean and thence world-wide in the
Tropics. The melon-like fruits are delicious, and usually 
eaten with sugar and a squeeze of limejuice. By 
slitting the young fruits a milky sap exudes that 
contains an enzyme, papain, that will digest meat.
I have seen the fingers of natives in Uganda who have 
been collecting this substance eaten away to the bone.
	2) Asimina  triloba Adans. is a deciduous small
tree to 10m. Zone 5. from eastern North America. 
Clones selected for fruit are 'Davis' 'Overleese', 'Sunflower.
		Hugo Latymer      latymer@ctv.es
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