The Catch-All Botany Thread

[thesummerqueen]

Botany catch of the day, passed on to me by a delectable Jewish atheist boy I've recently met, who happens to live in the same area as my parents. You just want to pinch his cheeks.

Anyway, plant talk. So I'm surprised I never knew about this because my dad was always the kind to make us go apple-picking and could find a wild pear tree growing out in the middle of nowhere. We certainly hiked around the Potomac enough as kids. Either way, it's pretty cool, and Jew-boy is supposed to go looking for them this weekend. As someone on his Google+ thread said, "It looks like a green monster's nut sack, lol"


Behold, the PawPaw

http://wamu.org/programs/morning_edition...tten_fruit



http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/cropf...awpaw.html

Eaten in-hand as fresh fruit or processed into desserts. Twigs are source of annonaceous acetogenins which are being used in the development of anti-cancer drugs and botanical pesticides.