Native Paw Paw’s?

[Dan Maranto]

6 years ago I had a select harvest done, and these faster growing trees started showing up, growing in pockets through the woods and at the edge of my yard. thought it was a type of mountain laurel (excuse the ignorance). Until this September I happened to spot some fruit on one, and after some research sure enough it’s paw paw. I’ve never planted one and really never gave them a thought for deer. Are they worth keeping around since there here?

 

[Telemark]

You'll have to try the fruit and decide for yourself on each tree. There is a lot of variation in pawpaws, and I presume that's one reason why they don't have the popularity of other fruits.

I would leave them and hang a camera nearby. I would guess that deer would love the ripe fruit.

 

[swat1018]

Everything in the woods eat them. Most of them in my locale are long gone by deer season.

 

[b116757]

They will be long gone by deer season I wouldn’t go out of my way to plant them or even protect them if I had something else in mind for an area they are in but I wouldn’t kill them if they where in an area that I had nothing else in mind for either.