Asimina triloba(L.) Dunal

common pawpaw

WFO wfo-0000552025 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Asimina triloba, photographed by Anne Parker
fig. a Anne Parker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205010844
Asimina triloba, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. b Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202432230
Asimina triloba, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. c Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201808346
Asimina triloba, photographed by lejones417
fig. d lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201662986
Asimina triloba, photographed by Scott Allen Davis
fig. e Scott Allen Davis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205105139
Asimina triloba, photographed by Jack
fig. f Jack, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202054597
Asimina triloba, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. g Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201796018
Asimina triloba, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. h Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201801198

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 9,736 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 9,736 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Annona pendula Salisb.
  • Annona triloba L.
  • Asimina campaniflora Spach
  • Asimina conoidea Spach
  • Asimina glabra K.Koch
  • Asimina virginiana Poit. & Turpin
  • Asimina virginiana Adans. ex P.N.Jacq.
  • Orchidocarpum arietinum Michx.
  • Porcelia triloba (L.) Pers.
  • Uvaria conoidea (Spach) Lem.
  • Uvaria triloba (L.) Torr. & A.Gray

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.