Pennsylvania Golden
Variety of Pawpaw · Asimina triloba
Early-ripening cultivar with golden flesh – ideal for cooler regions and short summers.
Also known as: PA Golden
🇺🇸 USA 1982
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweettenderaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Selektion aus New Yorker Zuchtprogramm (G. A. Zimmerman)
- Breeder
- John Gordon (Verbreitung)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 180 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium-sized fruit with golden-yellow, sweet flesh and mild flavour. Ripens early and reliably.
Growth
Bears young and sets early in the season – suited to more northern locations.
Yield
Productive; often sets fruit in clusters.
Notes
Cultivar from the north-west of the USA with very early ripening, high yield and very sweet fruit.
Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Pawpaw unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page
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