“It has this lovely pyramidal shape when grown in full sun and it has these long tropical-looking leaves,” he describes. The pawpaw tree is as beautiful as its fruit, Moore says. Moore calls the pawpaw a “river fruit.” It's native to 26 states in the eastern US and many of the rivers in these states are lined with pawpaw trees, which grow in the deep, alluvial soil on the banks. I was fascinated that something this good and this large could be so unknown,” he says. “The experience of picking pawpaws from the trees, of picking them up from the ground - this wild bounty, this tropical tasting fruit that I had never heard of, that none of my family or most of my friends have never really heard of. In the woods outside the festival fairgrounds was a patch of wild pawpaw trees. Moore became captivated by the pawpaw when he attended his first Ohio pawpaw festival. “It has an unusual tropical flavor for an otherwise temperate fruit, and it has a creamy texture similar to a banana.” “A lot of people commonly describe the pawpaw as a cross between a banana and a mango,” says Andrew Moore, the author of a new book, Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit. Chances are, though, you’ve never tasted one - which is a shame, because it is one of the most interesting fruits native to America. The pawpaw was once a cherished treat and a source of sustenance for many people in the eastern US.
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