Sep. 27—The pawpaw fruit. Green, pear-shaped, backed by a natural history of tens of millions of years and the largest native fruit in West Virginia. Some folks find it to have a smooth, tropical ...

POWHATAN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Powhatan State Park’s Pawpaw Festival is returning in September, bringing with it two running races, vendors, music and other festivities. Ever heard of a pawpaw?

The pawpaw—which, odds are, you’ve never heard of—has a bit of magic about it. The fruit is hard to find and harder to transport. With its sometimes-mottled green exterior, custardy flesh, and lima ...

The pawpaw fruit, which looks and tastes a bit like banana custard, has a long history in Appalachia, from feeding American Indians to being a staple in rural households. Colloquially it is sometimes ...

Hours before his flight back home from D.C. was scheduled to take off, Chris Schaaf was in the middle of a Virginia forest, shaking a tall, leggy tree, hoping it would relent. It had taken a group of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When people think of foods native to the Baltimore area, a few readily come to mind: Crabs, of ...

It’s tropical fruit season for West Virginia and the rest of the Northeastern United States -- or really just those few weeks in September and October where people go crazy for pawpaws. They are 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, ...

Pittsburghers Preserving Pawpaw Trees, Some Hope It Will Lead to More Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies On a wooded hillside along the banks of the Allegheny River, Gabrielle Marsden brushed up against an ...