Potomac® Pawpaw Tree

Fewer seeds, more flavor - the Potomac® Pawpaw Tree produces a large crop, so you will have plenty to eat fresh, bake into pies, make into jam, bake into cakes and freeze for use later!

If you want to enjoy a tropical fruit but live in a temperate zone, give the Potomac® Pawpaw (Asimina triloba 'Potomac') a try. Despite being eaten for thousands of years then forgotten, people are rediscovering it today and growing it in the yard or orchard.

You will enjoy plucking the large, greenish-yellow fruit. It's easy to slice and super creamy and smooth with melt in your mouth texture that bursts with sweet banana and mango flavor!

Planting and Application:

The blossoms of the Potomac® Pawpaw are unusual, deep maroon with near-black centers and large, arching petals. These photogenic flowers make your spring and please the many different pollinators that enjoy them!

Growing into a small, upright tree, Potomac® provides you and your family delicious and nutritious fruit, all on a lovely ornamental. It does need a pollination partner, though so check out our other Pawpaw varieties.

• Delicious flavor and one of the largest varieties, up to a pound
• Mid-season variety
• Lime green smooth skin with a yellow tint when ripe
• Custardy yellow flesh loaded with flavor and fewer seeds
• Naturally pest and disease resistant

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Your Potomac® Pawpaw is cold-hardy and loves both sun and shade. But you want a huge harvest, make sure that it gets plenty of sun. You will want to shade it during its first year, however, to help it adjust.

Potomac® isn't bothered by insects or diseases, so you won't have to worry about spraying! Find a spot with rich, well-drained soil, and give it plenty of composted plant material for best results.

• Very good drought tolerance, however, for the best-tasting fruit, provide regular water
• Large crop bearing at early, usually fruiting by 2 to 3 years of age
• Pair with a different variety of Pawpaw. Try this High-Density planting trick in our Blog
• Plant in fertile ground that is very well-drained, full sun and mulched well
• Paw Paw tree fruit are related to the Cherimoya, Atemoya, Guanabana, or Soursop

These sell out fast, so don't delay, order your Potomac® Pawpaw and its partner in pollination before they are all gone. In a few years, while you are enjoying Pawpaw cookies and Pawpaw ice cream!