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Pawpaw fruits and a pawpaw leaf are featured in the painting Still Life with Pawpaws (circa 1870–1875) by Edward Edmondson, Jr. (1830–1884), at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. The Paw Paw is mentioned in the song "Bear Necessities" from the movie "The Jungle Book" : "Now when you pick a paw-paw or a prickly pear And you prick a ...
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Pawpaw leaves and twigs are seldom consumed by rabbits or deer. [26] The leaves, twigs, and bark of the common pawpaw tree contain natural insecticides known as acetogenins. [27] Larvae of the zebra swallowtail butterfly feed exclusively on young leaves of the various pawpaw species, but never occur in great numbers on the plants. [28]
Asimina pygmaea, the dwarf pawpaw or gopher berry, is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Florida and Georgia in the United States . [ 2 ] William Bartram , the American naturalist who first formally described the species using the basionym Annona pygmaea , named it after its dwarfed ( pygmaeus in Latin) stature.
Asimina tetramera, commonly known as the four-petal pawpaw, is a rare species of small tree or perennial shrub endemic to Martin and Palm Beach Counties in the state of Florida. [3] The species is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and as endangered by the International Union for Conservation.
The mountain papaya (Vasconcellea pubescens) also known as mountain pawpaw, papayuelo, chamburo, or simply "papaya" is a species of the genus Vasconcellea, native to the Andes of northwestern South America from Colombia south to central Chile, typically growing at altitudes of 1,500–3,000 metres (4,900–9,800 ft).
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The mature leaves are hairless and pale green on their upper surface and much paler and sparsely hairy on their lower surface. Its petioles are 2-6 millimeters long. It has 1-3 flowers per node on 2-3.5 centimeter long pedicels that emerge from the axils of leaf scars. The Pedicels are covered in orange hairs.