Asimina triloba ‘Taylor’

Asimina triloba 'Taylor' is a productive and early ripening variety with abundant crops of sweet and delicious fruit and a light yellow flesh.

Asimina triloba ‘Taylor’ is a productive and early ripening variety with abundant crops of sweet and delicious fruit and a light yellow flesh. Clusters can have up to seven fruit! Paw paw is an intriguing eastern North American (including southern Ontario) understorey tree with large, beautiful, subtropical foliage, red flowers and sweet, custardy fruits with a unique flavour like banana, mango and cantaloupe! All plants will produce fruit but you need two different plants for cross pollination.

Common Name:  Paw Paw

Family:  Annonaceae (The Custard Apple Family)

Zone Hardiness:  5-9

Light:  Full Sun, Part Sun

Height:  10-15'

Width:  5-8'

Primary Bloom Colour:  Burgundy

Secondary Bloom Colour:  Red

Foliage Colour:  Green

Class:  Deciduous

Type:  Shrub

Bloom Time:  Spring

Soil Moisture:  Average, Moist

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Fragrance:  Yes

Berries:  Green

Benefits:  

Deer Resistant:  Unknown

BC Native:  No

Native Habitat:  Well-drained, deep, fertile bottom-land and hilly upland habitat.

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