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Table 7.2. Commercially available pawpaw cultivars.2
| Cultivar | Description |
|---|---|
| G-2 | Selected from G. A. Zimmerman seed by John W. McKay, College Park, Maryland, in 1942. |
| Glaser | Selected by P. Glaser of Evansville, Indiana. Medium-size fruit. |
| IXL | Hybrid of Overleese and Davis; large fruit, yellow flesh; ripens 2nd week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Jack's Jumbo | Selected in California from Corwin Davis seed; large fruit. |
| Kirsten | Hybrid seedling of Taytwo × Overleese; selected by Tom Mansell, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. |
| LA Native | From LA, blooms late in Tennessee, small fruit, somewhat frost hardy. |
| Little Rosie | Selected by P. Glaser of Evansville, Indiana. Has small fruit. Reported to be an excellent pollinator. |
| Lynn's Favorite | Selected from Corwin Davis orchard. Yellow fleshed, large fruit; ripens 2nd week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| M-1 | Selected from G-2 seed by John W. McKay, College Park, Maryland, in 1948. |
| Mango | Selected from the wild in Tifton, Georgia, by Major C. Collins in 1970. Vigorous growth. |
| Mary Foos Johnson | Selected from the wild in Kansas by Milo Gibson. Seedling donated to North Willamette Expt. Sta., Aurora, Oregon, by Mary Foos Johnson. Large fruit; yellow skin; butter-color flesh; few seeds; ripens first week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Mason/WLW | Selected from the wild in Mason, Ohio, by Ernest J. Downing in 1938. |
| Middletown | Selected from the wild in Middletown, Ohio, by Ernest J. Downing in 1915. Small fruit size. |
| Mitchell | Selected from the wild in Jefferson Co., Illinois, by Joseph W. Hickman in 1979. Fruit: Medium fruit size, slightly yellow skin, golden flesh, few seeds. |
| NC-1 | Hybrid seedling of Davis × Overleese; selected by R. Douglas Campbell, Ontario, Canada, in 1976. Large fruit; few seeds; yellow skin and flesh; thin skin; early ripening, 15 Sept. in Ontario and early Sept. in Kentucky. |
| Overleese | Selected from the wild in Rushville, Indiana, by W. B. Ward in 1950. Large fruit; few seeds; bears in clusters of three to five; ripens 1st week of Oct. in Michigan and early Sept. in Kentucky. |
| PA-Golden 1 | Selected as seedling from seed originating from George Slate collection by John Gordon, Amherst, New York. Early cropping. Medium-size fruit, yellow skin, golden flesh; matures late August in Kentucky and mid-Sept. in New York. |
| PA-Golden 2 | Selected as seedling from seed originating from George Slate collection by John Gordon, Amherst, New York. Fruit: yellow skin, golden flesh; matures mid-Sept. in New York. |
| PA-Golden 3 | Selected as seedling from seed originating from George Slate collection by John Gordon, Amherst, New York. Fruit: yellow skin, golden flesh; matures mid-Sept. in New York. |
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| Cultivar | Description |
|---|---|
| PA-Golden 4 | Selected as seedling from seed originating from George Slate collection by John Gordon, Amherst, New York. Fruit: yellow skin, golden flesh; matures mid-Sept. in New York. |
| Prolific | Selected by Corwin Davis, Bellevue, Michigan, in mid-1980s. Large fruit; yellow flesh; ripens first week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Rebecca's Gold | Selected from Corwin Davis seed, Bellevue, Michigan, by J. M. Riley in 1974. Medium-size fruit; kidney-shaped; yellow flesh. |
| Ruby Keenan SAA-Overleese | Selected from Overleese seed by John Gordon, Amherst, New York, in 1982. Large fruit; rounded shape; green skin; yellow flesh; few seeds; matures in mid-Oct. in New York. |
| SAA-Zimmerman | Selected as seedling from seed originating from G. A. Zimmerman collection by John Gordon, Amherst, New York, in 1982. Large fruit; yellow skin and flesh; few seeds. |
| Silver Creek | Selected from the wild in Millstedt, Illinois, by K. Schubert. Medium fruit size. |
| Sue | Selected in southern Indiana. Medium-size fruit, yellow flesh, skin yellow when ripe. |
| Sunflower | Selected from the wild in Chanute, Kansas, by Milo Gibson in 1970. Tree reported to be self-fertile. Large fruit; yellow skin; butter-color flesh; few seeds; ripens early to mid-Sept. in Kentucky and the first week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Sunglo | Yellow skin, yellow flesh, large fruit; fruit ripens 1st week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Sweet Alice | Selected from the wild in West Virginia by Homer Jacobs of the Holden Arboretum, Mentor, Ohio, in 1934. |
| Taylor | Selected from the wild in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, by Corwin Davis in 1968. Small fruit; bears up to seven fruit in a cluster; green skin; yellow flesh; ripens 1st week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Taytwo | Selected from the wild in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, by Corwin Davis in 1968. Sometimes spelled Taytoo. Small fruit; light-green skin; yellow flesh; ripens 1st week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Tollgate | Yellow flesh, large fruit, fruit ripens 1st week of Oct. in Michigan. |
| Wells | Selected from the wild in Salem, Indiana, by David Wells in 1990. Small to medium-size fruit; green skin; orange flesh. Ripens mid to late Sept. in Kentucky. |
| White Wilson | Selected in Kentucky by Johnny Johnson; has white-fleshed fruit. Selected from the wild on Black Mountain, Harlan Co., Kentucky, by John V. Creech in 1985. Small fruit; yellow skin; golden flesh. |
| Zimmerman | Selected in New York from G. A. Zimmerman seed by George Slate. |
2Descriptions derived from Layne (1997), Jones et al. (1998), and unpublished data of K. Pomper. Descriptions come from a wide variety of sources, and most of the cultivars have not been compared for performance side by side at one geographic site.3Fruit size categories of small, medium, and large are <100 g, 100 to 150 g, and >150 g, respectively.