Overleese
Variety of Pawpaw · Asimina triloba
Classic benchmark cultivar with large, aromatic fruit and few, large seeds.
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5🇺🇸 USA 1950
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweettenderaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Wildselektion aus Indiana
- Breeder
- W. B. Ward (Selektion Overleese-Baum)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 260 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, rounded fruit around 250–300 g with creamy yellow flesh, rich custard flavour and pleasantly few seeds.
Yield
Reliable, good yields; often two fruits per flower cluster. A proven pollinizer and reference variety.
Notes
One of the oldest named cultivars and a parent of many modern selections.
Care
Site: Self-sterile like all pawpaws — a second, genetically different tree is essential. Care: Ripens early to mid season. Yields vary from year to year between 7.5 and 11 kg per tree.
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