And don’t even get me started on how the flowers of a paw-paw change sex multiple times. Science is weird

As for harvesting, on-the-tree fruit wasn’t ripe; fresh windfall was best. And I figure it can’t hurt, when finding overripe windfall fruit, to toss it it away from its parent. An easy way to mammoth

We planted four around our house in DC; one of them that went in about five years ago had fruit for the first time this year, and the seeds are being scattered around NE DC. Apparently they're good for bees, too.

Wait WHAT