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Dwarf Pawpaw
(asimina parviflora)
Also known as smallflower pawpaw
Not to be confused with common pawpaw (asimina triloba)
Have you eaten a dwarf pawpaw?
Yes
No, but I've heard of it
Haven't even heard of it
🥭 Reblog to share a fun fruit and to increase sample size! Check out even more interesting fruits here or in the list of all polled fruits. 🥭
I'm always looking at the pawpaw trees when I'm out wandering in the woods in summer, because I think they're neat and I want free fruit. But though they bloom and there are certainly many that are large enough to bear fruit, I never see any fruit on them. I suspect this is because each patch, a clonal group, is too isolated for them to effectively cross-pollinate.
But today, I was looking up at some and!
There you are, you weird tropical-tasting, mammoth-missing fruits!
I'm coming back for you in the fall.
OC Colour Wheel
I think I’ve used up my OC quota of the year.... xD
Check out the rotation GIF below.
Completed - 21 June 2023
16,537 to go
and yes the number has jumped up by 3K because now it's sorted to show all pawpaws, not just common pawpaws. Because I may as well do them all at once.....
so yeah.
There are 13,000+ common pawpaws on iNaturalist.org so far (as of July 18th 2022 12:49AM) that still need annotations added.
There are 3,500 ish pawpaws that are species other than common pawpaw that still need annotations added.
Most of the observations of pawpaws are common pawpaws.
actually wait I can just give you the exact numbers:
Common pawpaw: 18,046
Netted pawpaw: 1,500 (Wow an exact number. that's cool)
Small-flower pawpaw: 1,483
Slimleaf pawpaw: 747
Flag pawpaw: 438
Wooly pawpaw: 405
Gopher-berry: 313
Four-petal pawpaw: 13
Manasota pawpaw: 12
Asimina colorata: 7
Asimina × bethanyensis: 5
Asimina x piedmontana: 4
Asimina × nashii: 2
Well, I say exact, this is just how the site sorts them, some of them aren't Research Grade yet (meaning they've been identified as the species they're categorized as by at least two people, or more than two depending on if there are other identifications offered)
oh wow I'm the 2nd top Observer of pawpaws on the whole site out of 11,990 people............................because I've observed 153. Except it's not actually 153 it's more like 50 a few times each since I keep track of individual plants over the course of the seasons lol......the #1 top observer has observed 458.
Those 153 observations are also all of small-flower pawpaws, which makes me the top observer for that species. I'm also the top identifier for that species, since I've helped to identify 1,293 of them.
anyways join iNaturalist if you want to learn about plants or animals or mushrooms or become really good at telling the differences between obscure species since no one else knows how to so you figure 'well I might as well do this' 'oh and there's only 15,000 observations I may as well go through and add data on whether or not the plant's flowering or fruiting or not'
Alright the June orchard reports- let's start with the pawpaws
You may remember the one autumn wherein my oldest pawpaw's young trunk got bent to the ground, as you can see that it's recovered pretty decently since! So much growth race for maturity continues. Did you know that there's an Ontarian pawpaw group where some peeps exchange pollen so their lonely trees can get a partner thanks to hand pollination? I'm used to hearing about pollen collection for daylilies, true lilies, and African violets but I nevef considered pollen trading, that's pretty cool.
2 of the 3 younger pawpaws planted last year are fully leafed out and out joining on the growth race thanks to the supplemental water followed by rain the week after. Looks like our older tree will get some closeby partners after all, with maybe a few year delay.
The 3rd planted pawpaw still hasn't shown any attempts at budding but you can see what I spoke about in early spring; it would appear that the half with all the important buds got snapped off from the trunk/root half. I suspect snowload cause last winter was pretty crazy for the snow heights in the orchard. Still hoping it tries to push some miracle buds or a sucker but I think the poor thing is much too young to pull that trick card out of its pocket.
Alright now for the Pewaukee apple grafts since none of you have had any photos up till now.
Seniors first- the only successful grafted tree (which was a miracle according to the guy who's been doing our graftings, since that year there wasn't any good young scionwood to work since we hadn't done any force pruning) from last spring has been doing great and has also been taking off, may even get out of the protection tube within the growing season at this rate!
Next, the 4 grafts from this spring specifically.
The remaining unplanted one appears to have succeeded! I removed the rootstock shoots that were below the hand so that the scionwood can dominate.
The other planted tree's graft on the south end of the orchard has not only taken, but it looks like this one's gonna REALLY take off for its first season!
The other two graft attempts were done on two full grown trees (the plan being that those trees will be trained to have one dedicated branch just for Pewaukee.
First was on one of our smaller trees. No dice 👎
Maybe it'll take late and push some surprise growth but I highly doubt it.
Next and last was onto the one tree that is always first on the spring pruning queue, and was the one the grafting guy had me try to do by my own hands. I had to really stick my head into the leaves to find it to check/photograph. I'll be damned my second ever grafting attempt has succeeded!!!! I'm pretty stoked, and it's definitely making me a lil hungry to try more grafting with my own hands.
The tape in all of these should be removed mid-july according to the grafting expert so I'll have to keep that on account.
which poisonous flower are you ?
OLEANDER
This is the poison of stagnation. You grow drowsy. Your heart rate slows, and when you do move you can't seem to stop shaking. It may seem to others that you're lazy, or reticent. Like you avoid hard work on purpose, like you always take the easy way out. But you know deep down that it wouldn't be like this if you weren't so tired, so deeply tired. If you weren't crushed under the weight of sorrow like a mile of water over your head. Nothing brings you peace, except rest and-- though you can hardly dare to ask-- having someone tend to you gently and sweetly. A good gardener speaks to their plants, sings to them, waters them, fertilizes their soil, prunes the dead parts, nurtures the new growth. You yearn to be cared for like that, even though you feel you don't deserve it. The secret is that you do. You always have. And someday, you'll learn that, and receive that care, and the exhaustion won't keep you from growing strong and lovely anymore. You were never the problem. These are simply poor growing conditions for you.
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Test your small-flower and common pawpaw identification skills!
Link to the identification guide I made, on the web archive.
Link to the identification guide on google docs.
You are encouraged to download it and save for later. You are also encouraged to check with the guide while looking at the pictures below to figure out which species they are.
This is to see whether or not the guide I made can actually help people tell the various species I talk about in it apart, since I obviously can't test myself!
Please let me know of any suggestions or improvements I could make to the guide :)
Here is the quiz! If you want to see if you got it right, you can click on the link to the observation above each photo!
The multiple choice answers will just be in the same order each time because I'm lazy lol.
To repeat: You are supposed to use the guide while you look at these--it's supposed to be something you take out to the woods with you, there's no such thing as cheating!
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#1:
Observation by kent_ozment, September 14th
[ID: A photo of a plant with large leaves with smooth edges and a bumpy texture. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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#2:
Observation by nonbinary-naturalist September 21st
[ID: A photo taken at night with flash turned on, of a plant with deep green, smooth leaves. The stem is light brown, with a slightly pointed bud at the tip, and round buds at the base of each leaf. Some small white spots dot the leaves in a few spots. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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#3:
Observation by elacroix-carignan, June 25th
[ID: A photo of a cluster of three fruits on a tree. The fruits are green with reddish-tinted edges, and small, with lumpy centers and pointed ends. The leaves are smooth. Part of the stem is grey with some moss on it, part is warm brown. Spanish moss hangs in the background. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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#4:
Observation by nonbinary-naturalist, September 25th
[ID: A photo of a plant with a white hand held behind the stem. The stem is red-brown, the leaves are smooth, and have yellow veins in the center, which turns red when it connects to the stem in long sections. The buds at the base of each leaf are dark and pointy. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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#5:
Observation by nonbinary-naturalist August 13th
[ID: A zoomed in photo of the stem of a plant. The stem is orange colored near the top, and the leaves are green, smooth, and have yellow veins in the center which turn yellow and orange when they connect to the stem in short sections. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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#6:
Observation by nonbinary-naturalist, April 28th
[ID: A slightly blurry photo of a white hand holding up a large, wrinkly leaf on a small sapling. The leaf is very large, and has two smaller leaves at its base pointing to the sides. The ground in the background is covered with brown dead leaves and wild muscadine grape vines. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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#7:
Observation by thorlovescake, August
[ID: A photo of a hand holding the tip of a leaf from a stem. The leaf is smaller than the hand, green, smooth, and shaped like an oval. Several more leaves hang down near it, emerging from the tip of the brown stem, which has a rounded, dark bud at the top. Some small black spots are scattered on the leaves. Where the leaves connect to the stem, they are round and pale yellow. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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#8:
Observation by onondagaearthcorps, October 10th
[ID: A photo of a large plant with its leaves all pointing towards the ground, and changing from green to yellow with the fall. The leaves are wrinkly, serrated, and are in groups of five at the end of a long section attaching it to the stem. End ID.]
A: Common pawpaw B: Small-flower pawpaw C: Hickory D: Persimmon E: Other
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You can either just click the Observation link to see how well you did yourself or submit your answers in an ask, with the question's number, then the letter you chose, and I'll grade you and explain anything you got confused on :)
Asimina triloba, Paw Paw
associated with mesic forests and flood plains, the major diversity of this species genetically occurs along the Ohio River Valley Region and the associated tributaries. Technically speaking, this is a carrion flower. Mimicry of dead animals and open wounds is often over looked in this species. Bees do not pollinate this species what so ever and instead we see the flies that are normally hanging out along the banks of creeks and rivers or in the bottomlands having an interest in the flowers. Fly pollinated species tend to appear more fleshy colored and textured than other species and often have a fetid odor. Paw Paw is also a good plant to study if you’re interested in floral evolution pollination mechanisms. Paw Paw is a clonal species, and will not self nor will it set fruit without cross pollination from individuals separate genetically. As far as pollination mechanisms go this species has a stigmatic receptive time that remains receptive for an extremely long period per flower, flowers occur in development periods at random and can form pollen whenever during blooming season, which means that alternation of pollen production, phenological signaling, and clonal crossing period play no role in the barrier. Instead the prezygotic barrier is a bit of a protein lock and key mechanism where alleles code for 2 lock and key protiens that form on the stigma and the pollen. If pollen that has S1 relation hits an s1 s2 stigmatic surface it is rejected, if s2 pollen hits a stigmatic surface of s1 s2 it is rejected, if s3 pollen hits a stigmatic surface of s1 s2 it is accepted and can grow because the alleles are not present to code for s1 or s2 protein and their for the stigmatic specimen is not the mother/relative. In the Magnolids this is often the case for these types of floral species, Specifically “ Stigmatic receptivity is concomitant with the secretion of cell-wall-related arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs)” as prezygotic barrier.
Along Indian Creek, Riley Ohio
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321659128_Pollen-pistil_interaction_in_pawpaw_Asimina_triloba_the_northernmost_species_of_the_mainly_tropical_family_Annonaceae
