Overlease Pawpaw Tree

The Overleese Pawpaw (Asimina triloba 'Overleese') was selected by W. B Ward in 1950 from the wilds of Indiana, and it has been popular with home gardeners and commercial growers since. While this unusual fruit has been ignored for years, many today are learning the Pawpaw is a delicious fruit and provides a lot of nutrients for good health.

Producing sizable fruit with a tasty creamy banana flavor. If you've never bitten into a Pawpaw, then you’ll be delighted to find they have sweet, creamy custardy flesh.

Overleese's dark green foliage looks exotic and is beautiful in spring and summer and its golden-colored leaves of fall. This tree will fill your landscape with striking blooms and refreshing shade.

Planting and Application:

Wonderful shade trees, plus impressive golden fall color, these are perfect as front yard ornamental landscaping as they are for shading back patios and garden beds! Anchor foundation plantings or shade your driveway with the unique tropical-looking foliage of this tree!

Once those unique oval fruits begin developing, your tree will become the object of everyone’s attention on the block! Full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, you’ll easily find a wide range of uses for this creamy, custardy, sweet fruit!

• Pawpaw tree fruit are great in smoothies, jam, pies or cake, or delicious ice cream
• Covered in dark burgundy, bell-shaped blossoms, popular with the local pollinators
• Dark green foliage turns brilliant gold in autumn
• Requires another Pawpaw pollinator species for fruit
• Great throughout USDA growing zones 5 through 8

#ProPlantTips for Care:

As you decide where your Overleese Pawpaw will look best, keep in mind you can place it in full sun or full shade, but it will bear its best crops in full sun.

Also, look for well-drained soil that is slightly acidic and rich in composted matter for best performance. Wild Pawpaw trees are naturally disease and pest-resistant, and Overleese Paw Paw trees are an underused gem, both as a delicious fruit and as an ornamental landscaping tree!

• Very cold hardy plus, naturally disease and pest resistant
• Typically produce fruit between 4-5 years of age
• Provide average fertility and water regularly throughout the growing season
• No room for 2 trees for pollination? Try this High-Density planting trick.

Don't forget to order a second variety to help your Overleese Pawpaw with pollination. You’ll find all our great varieties and more at NatureHills.com today!