PawPaws & Puffballs

[haldir]

Any of you squirrel hunters look for pawpaws while you are out in the wood? How about the puffballs later in the season? I used to eat pawpaws when I was a kid. Never could acquire a taste for the puffballs, I think because I was expecting morel like taste.

 

[Flintlock]

I don't have to look for pawpaws. There's a very large patch of them that grow in our woods. There are many other pawpaw patches in our woods, but none produce as many pawpaws as the patch I head to whenever I'm looking for a pawpaw to eat.

 

[sand creek kennels]

Too busy looking for ginseng!!

 

[Leadeye]

I make wine out of paw paws, it's pretty good!

 

[Sailor]

Embarrassed to say I dont know what they look like, and I have been in the woods for a long time.

Lots of sassafrass though.

 

[MoparMan]

Pawpaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sailor]

Wow, I cant say I have ever seen that fruit up here. I need to pay more attention. But they look big as your hand, how could I miss that?

 

[haldir]

If you are a woodsman, look for the leaves. I usually notice them before I do the pawpaws themselves.

 

[EMC0853]

I have to admit I've never seen or tasted a paw paw. In reading the Wikipedia article, I learned a lot about this unique and interesting item.

However I do know where Paw Paw West Virgina is located. There is a rather amazing tunnel (the only one) for the C&O Canal there.

Thanks for the post. You never know what you're going to learn here on INGO!

 

[Blaze261]

We have some paw paws, doesn't seem to many people know about them. Most of the time someone comes over and I ask if they want one they have no clue what I am talking about.

 

[Clay]

what does it taste like?

 

[Blaze261]

To me like a fruity banana. Maybe what a banana sherbet would taste like if i ever had it.

 

[haldir]

sort of custardy if it is good and ripe.

 

[Leadeye]

Taste like strawberries and mangos.

 

[ChalupaCabras]

We have some paw paws, doesn't seem to many people know about them. Most of the time someone comes over and I ask if they want one they have no clue what I am talking about.

Doesn't surprise me. Pawpaw is old school... like your great grandma old school. They are not commercially available, and since 99% of people get all their food from the grocer...

 

[Bill of Rights]

"...pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in th' basket..."

No, I've never had them, but I recall this snippet of song from when I was a kid.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Wabatuckian]

We have a creek nearby known as Paw Paw creek.

Never knew what a Paw Paw was.

I read the Wikipedia article and still have questions.

1. Is there anything poisonous that looks like them?

2. Where are they usually found?

3. Are there any other good sites for recognizing this fruit?

Thanks,

Josh <><

 

[Blaze261]

We have a creek nearby known as Paw Paw creek.

Never knew what a Paw Paw was.

I read the Wikipedia article and still have questions.

1. Is there anything poisonous that looks like them?
Not that I have seen around here.

2. Where are they usually found?
In the woods. My woods has no water, really hasn't been logged out. Cattle even used to run in here until we built the house.

3. Are there any other good sites for recognizing this fruit?
I usually recognize the tree and leaves first. They are never really big trees, atleast the ones we have, probly a half dozen of them. They get bigger when they are ripe than the pic below.

Thanks,

Josh <><

 

[Wabatuckian]

I think I've seen the small unripe ones; never the large ripe ones.

I have two creeks and a first-growth woods.

Whenabouts do they ripen?

Thanks again,

Josh <><

 

[Flintlock]

The trees grow very slow and grow in patches. The leaves are very large and the entire tree looks tropical and somewhat out of place in an Indiana forest.

Like Dad always says about them, "They're sweeter than candy!"