This is a hybrid seedling of Davis x Overleese and was selected by Nash Nurseries in Ontario, Canada, in 1976. The fruit has few seeds and ripens earlier than most.

Ripening Time: mid-September

This fruit has yellow skin when ripening and golden flesh. It's an early-ripening pawpaw with a very hardy, very flavorful, and sweet taste.

Ripening Time: mid-September

Selected by Neal Peterson as a seedling of Overleese, the fruit from this tree has creamy yellow flesh with few seeds. It has an excellent sweet, smooth, and creamy flavor. 

Ripening Time: 1st week of October

Selected by Corwin Davis in Bellevue, MI, this productive tree is a fast grower. Its fruit has light, golden flesh.

Ripening Time: 1st week of October

This tree has an unusual leaf habit, where the leaves tend to beheld horizontal-to-upright, making the fruit more visible. The fruit tends to show a yellowish color break when it's ready to pick.  

Ripening Time: Last week of September

This tree is a self-fertile cultivar whose fruit is deep yellow with butter-colored flesh. It has few seeds and large fruit. It won Best Fruit at Ohio Pawpaw Festival in 2006 and 2010. 

Ripening Time: 1st week of October

This tree is reported to be self fruitful with a very savory taste. 

Ripening Time: late September/early October

The word "seedling" means non-grafted tree.  Most trees that have a cultivar name--apples, peaches, pear, most fruits, chestnuts, even trees like Redbuds--are grafted with the wood of a cultivar.  Usually, if they have a variety name, they are grafted. As seedlings, there is no guarantee of what the fruit size, flavor, or ripening time will be. 

Ripening Time: Fall

American Elderberry
(Sambucus canadensis)

Choke Cherry
(Prunus virginiana)

Fragrant Sumac
(Rhus aromatica)

Hoptree
(Ptelea trifoloata)

New Jersey Tea
(Ceanothus americanus)

Serviceberry
(Amelanchier sp.)

Spicebush
(Lindera benzoin)

Staghorn Sumac
(Rhus typhina)

Wild Black Currant
(Ribes americanum)

This strong little seeding chose to grow in the Pawpaw Orchard. It's especially fitting to see oak trees on the Heritage Site because this land was once an oak barren. According to the Michigan Natural Features Inventory, "Oak barrens are a fire-dependent savanna type dominated by oaks, having between 5 and 60% canopy, with or without a shrub layer. Black oak (Quercus velutina) and white oak (Q. alba) typically dominate the scattered overstory. Oak barrens are found on droughty soils and occur typically on nearly level to slightly undulating glacial outwash in southern Lower Michigan."

This sun-loving plant made an appearance in the pawpaw orchard in the summer of 2023 and continues to thrive. Per the U.S. Forest Service, milkweed can grow to be 5 feet tall and is a food source to hundreds of insects. It is among the most important food plants for monarch caterpillars, who store toxic compounds from the milkweed plant in their tissues to use as a defense against predators. Milkweed is rhizomatic and spreads quickly.