Susquehanna

Variety of Pawpaw · Asimina triloba

Premium Peterson cultivar: very large fruit, firm buttery flesh and unusually few, small seeds.

🇺🇸 USA 2003

Taste & characteristics

sweettenderaromatic

Parentage: Peterson-Zuchtprogramm (offene Bestäubung, u. a. Overleese-Linie)
Breeder: Neal Peterson
Pollination: self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Fruit weight: 350 g

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Very large fruit (often 300–400 g) with firm, buttery flesh, rich flavour and an exceptionally low seed content.

Part of the Peterson Pawpaw series named after US rivers; vigorous and productive.

High yields of large, well-keeping fruit – regarded as one of the best commercial cultivars.

Sweet, very aromatic flesh of fine texture with few seeds (3 % of fruit weight). Fruit weight up to 0.5 kg.

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