By Amber Veverka Paw paws- those mysterious forest fruits that taste like part-banana, part-mango - are ripe across the Carolinas Piedmont. The fruits look a bit like knobby, misshapen mangoes, and when ripe are quite soft. Inside, they have a custardy yellow pulp with large, shiny black seeds. “These are an understory forest tree [...]
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N.C. paw paws ripe for the picking
Posted in foraging, tagged foraging, fruit, paw paws on August 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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