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Asimina pulchella

Asimina pulchella
Photo: Bobyellow, CC BY 4.0
Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Florida
Climate
wet tropical

About

Asimina pulchella is a rare species of flowering plant in the custard apple family known by the common names beautiful pawpaw, royal false pawpaw, and white squirrel banana. It is a federally listed endangered species.

Where it grows

It is endemic to Florida in the United States, where there are perhaps 5000 plants remaining in severely fragmented habitat spread across three counties: Charlotte, Lee, and Orange County.

Other Asimina plants

Woolly pawpaw · Slimleaf pawpaw · Asimina manasota · Bigflower pawpaw · Smallflower pawpaw · Dwarf pawpaw · Netted pawpaw · Asimina spatulata · Fourpetal pawpaw · Pawpaw · Pawpaw

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asimina pulchella by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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