Pawpaw Information Website
Frankfort, Kentucky

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Ohio Pawpaw Growers Association

Recent PowerPoint Presentations on pawpaw, gooseberries and currants, and blackberries

2008 Nursery List

2008 Cultivar List

KSU Reports and Publications

Updated Kentucky Nut Growers Association Website

Pawpaw FAQ

Planting Guide

KSU Organic Agriculture Working Group Website

2nd International Pawpaw Conference Proceedings

Kentucky Farmers Market Program

Pawpaw in the News

Pawpaw Acetogenins

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Pawpaw Research at Kentucky State University

The PawPaw Foundation

Description of Fruit and Nutritional Information

Recipes

Photo Gallery

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Organic Production and SARE

Links to other Pawpaw websites

Links to other horticultural and botanical sites

New KSU Grape Website!

 Photograph of Ohio Pawpaw Festival in 2005 by Kirk Pomper.

Pawpaw News

Picking up on pawpaws Kansas City Star, MO - Sep 23, 2008 By Gail Borelli. Pastry chef Chris Tosh describes pawpaws as a sort of “prairie banana.” Tosh uses pulp to create pawpaw ice cream and cheesecake in season ...

Columbia Missourian Pawpaws: A fruit with a future Columbia Missourian, MO - Oct 6, 2008. Pawpaws, native to Missouri, are tropical fruit that resemble a pear on the outside but have a custard-like juicy consistency on the inside. ...

Saving Pawpaw Seed for Planting: For more information follow this link!

Pawpaws in Louisiana! Praising Pawpaws: LSU Horticulturist Promoting Unique Fruit for Backyard Gardeners

KSU Pawpaw Program

The pawpaw (Asimina triloba) fruit has both fresh market and processing appeal, with a tropical like flavor that resembles a combination of banana, mango, and pineapple. Kentucky State University has the only full-time pawpaw research program in the world as part of the KSU Land Grant Program. Pawpaw research efforts are directed at improving seed and clonal propagation methods, developing orchard management recommendations, conducting regional variety trials, understanding fruit ripening processes, developing fruit storage techniques, and germplasm collection and characterization of genetic diversity.

USDA National Clonal Repository for Pawpaw at KSU  

Since 1994, Kentucky State University has served as the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR), or gene bank, for Asimina species (pawpaw), as a satellite site of the NCGR repository at Corvallis, OR. There are over 2,000 accessions (trees) from 17 states that are planted on 10 acres at the KSU farm. We are attempting to evaluate the genetic diversity contained in wild pawpaw populations across its native range so that unique material can be added to the KYSU repository collection; this potentially rich source of useful genetic traits will be used in breeding efforts.

Photo of fruit from the pawpaw variety 'Wabash' at KSU on Sept. 14, 2006.  Photo by Kirk Pomper.