{"id":1669,"date":"2022-03-20T11:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:30:18","slug":"pawpaw-americas-forgotten-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/pawpaw-americas-forgotten-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawpaw: America&#8217;s Forgotten Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author, gardener, and lecturer Andy Moore gave an enlightening program on March 16, 2022, on an unusual and very unique tropical-like fruit that is native to eastern U.S. and southern Canada, the pawpaw, Asimina triloba. The pawpaw, which tastes like a cross between a banana, mango, and pineapple, was a favorite of Native Americans and was also very popular among the colonists settling this country. Why did the tasty pawpaw never become commercially viable? Learn all this and more in these audio clips with Andy Moore. You can also learn more from his book <em><strong>Pawpaw: America&#8217;s Forgotten Fruit.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splendidtable.org\/story\/2015\/09\/11\/how-did-americans-forget-about-the-pawpaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Splendid Table<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativeplantpodcast.com\/podcasts-1\/2018\/5\/8\/paw-paws-in-search-of-americas-forgotten-fruit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Native Plant Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loe.org\/shows\/segments.html?programID=15-P13-00047&amp;segmentID=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living on Earth<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1670 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-20-11.15.02-AM-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-20-11.15.02-AM-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-20-11.15.02-AM.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-20-11.14.32-AM-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-20-11.14.32-AM-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-20-11.14.32-AM.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author, gardener, and lecturer Andy Moore gave an enlightening program on March 16, 2022, on an unusual and very unique tropical-like fruit that is native to eastern U.S. and southern Canada, the pawpaw, Asimina triloba. The pawpaw, which tastes like a cross between a banana, mango, and pineapple, was a favorite of Native Americans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":1777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,32,40],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-edible-fruits","tag-native-plants","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpgardencenter.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}