The genus name Asimina is adapted from the Native American (probably Miami-Illinois ) name assimin or rassimin combining the root terms rassi= “divided lengthwise into equal parts” and min= “seed, fruit, nut, berry, etc.” through the French colonial asiminier. This plant's scientific name is Asimina triloba. Ripe fruit of Asimina triloba, cut open to reveal the large seeds The bark, leaves, and seeds contain the insecticidal neurotoxin annonacin. They are commonly eaten raw, but are also used to make ice cream and baked desserts. Pawpaw fruits are sweet, with a custard-like texture, and a flavor somewhat similar to banana, mango, and pineapple. Pawpaw fruits are the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States (not counting gourds, which are typically considered vegetables rather than fruit for culinary purposes, although in botany they are classified as fruit). It has large, simple leaves with drip tips, more characteristic of plants in tropical rainforests than within this species' temperate range. The pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree of hardwood forests, which is found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottomland and also hilly upland habitat. Well-known tropical fruits of different genera in family Annonaceae include the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang, and soursop. Asimina is the only temperate genus in the tropical and subtropical flowering plant family Annonaceae, and Asimina triloba has the most northern range of all. Asimina triloba, the American papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among many regional names, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States and Canada, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit.
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