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Pawpaws are in the same family as many rainforest fruits, such as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop. The pawpaw, however, is is native to the Eastern, Southern, and Midwestern United States and tastes wonderful!

The pawpaw is the the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States. It has strange maroon bell-shaped flowers in the spring. It grows most often in clumps as under-story trees or shrubs in the woods, but can grow well in urban areas as well.

Other names pawpaw is known by are wild banana, prairie banana, Indiana banana, Hoosier banana, West Virginia banana, Kansas banana, Kentucky banana, Michigan banana, Missouri banana, the poor man’s banana, Ozark banana, and banango.

Larvae of the zebra swallowtail, a butterfly, feed exclusively on young leaves of pawpaw. Chemicals in the pawpaw leaves offer protection from predation throughout the butterfly's life, as trace amounts of acetogenins remain present, making them unpalatable to birds and other predators.

Fresh fruits of the pawpaw are commonly eaten raw, either chilled or at room temperature. However, they can be kept only 2–3 days at room temperature, or about a week if refrigerated. The easily bruised pawpaw fruits do not ship well unless frozen. Where pawpaws grow, the fruit pulp is also often used locally in baked dessert recipes, with pawpaw often substituted for banana-based recipes. Pawpaws may also be blended into ice cream or included in pancakes.