Weird fruit?
#4
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Central KY USA
Posts: 88
RE: Weird fruit?
If it' s a paw paw, it will smell similar to a banana. It will have a couple large seeds in it as well. The ones on my farm are green and then turn a light yellow and then the coons and deer eat them up. It may be some type of plum. I have several wild plum trees and they are purple after falling off and the trees are grayish with flaky bark. They are usually about like a quarter in size though.
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 2,059
RE: Weird fruit?
Pawpaw. Banana custard texture and taste. Large, dark seeds about the size of a nickel. The tree leaves are single, oval (tongue shaped), and droop down from the tree. When you taste it remember that the trees depend on carrion flies for pollination. I have to go searching for roadkill during flowering. The fruit will be yellow to black when it' s ripe.
Dan O.
Dan O.