(MIRROR INDY) — On a walk in the woods, you could easily hike right past a semi-tropical oddity and the largest native fruit in Indiana – and never know what you missed. Animals like possums, raccoons ...

DESCRIBED AS a hardy tropical fruit that tastes like a cross between a banana, mango, and pineapple, the Asimina triloba was seemingly once so plentiful that it ...

The pawpaw, a fruit native to Indiana, ripens in the fall and has a tropical flavor. Purdue University researchers studied the pawpaw for its potential cancer-fighting properties, but it never made it ...

Have you heard of the pawpaw tree? It’s affectionately called the Indiana Banana. Rosie Lerner, a retired Purdue University consumer horticulture specialist, wrote about pawpaws. “The pawpaw has been ...

September is harvest season for Indiana’s most idiosyncratic produce—the pawpaw. It grows on small trees with giant leaves, can be found pretty much everywhere in the Hoosier state, and is the largest ...

Buckeyes aren't the only trees Ohio is known for. There's a native tree that bears delicious fruit instead of poisonous nuts. Have you ever heard of the pawpaw tree or its fruit? Well, guess what? The ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Pawpaws are the fruit of a hardy understory tree native to parts of the U.S. They used to be everywhere, ...

The pawpaw tree, which produces Ohio's official native fruit, is common throughout the state. Pawpaw fruit tastes like a combination of banana, mango, and pineapple and is harvested in late summer and ...

It’s September, and I’ve always been a child of autumn, immersing myself in its sights, sounds and colors. And its foods: farm stand apples, cider and the first winter squash. But the food I associate ...