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The tree grows in the wild but has been cultivated for its fruit and wood since prehistoric times by Native Americans. Diospyros virginiana grows to 20 m (66 ft), in well-drained soil. The tree is typically dioecious , so one must have both male and female plants to obtain fruit.
Asimina triloba, the American papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among many regional names, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States and southern Ontario, Canada, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit.
Prunus americana, commonly called the American plum, [7] wild plum, or Marshall's large yellow sweet plum, is a species of Prunus native to North America from Saskatchewan and Idaho south to New Mexico and east to Québec, Maine and Florida. [8] Prunus americana has often been planted outside its native range and sometimes escapes cultivation. [9]
Asimina is a genus of small trees or shrubs described as a genus in 1763. [2] [3] Asimina is the only temperate genus in the tropical and subtropical flowering plant family Annonaceae. [4] Asimina have large, simple leaves and large fruit. It is native to eastern North America and collectively referred to as pawpaw.
The chokecherry fruit can be eaten when fully ripe, but otherwise contains a toxin. [19] The fruit can be used to make jam or syrup, but the bitter nature of the fruit requires sugar to sweeten the preserves. [20] The Plains Indians pound up the whole fruits—including the pits—in a mortar, from which they made sun-baked cakes. [21]
Cladrastis kentukea, the Kentucky yellowwood or American yellowwood (syn. C. lutea, C. tinctoria), is a species of Cladrastis native to the Southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama. The tree is sometimes also called ...
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Sagittaria latifolia is a variably sized perennial that may reach as much as 150 centimeters (5 ft) in height, [7] but is more typically 60–120 cm (24–47 in). [8] The plants often grow together in crowded colonies and spread by runners at or just under the soil surface.