SWEET AND CREAMY BANANA FLAVORED PAWPAW
FEATURES:
- Velvet burgundy flowers blooms in spring
- Produces large green fruits that have a creamy banana flavor with its sweet and custardy flesh
- In spring and summer, foliage is dark green
- Fall foliage is a brilliant golden color
- Will easily fill your landscape with beautiful blooms and bountiful shade
- Popular with home and commercial growers since 1950
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Photo Credit: ©Nova-Photo-Graphik GmbH® Overlease Pawpaw
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-8
- Mature Height: 15-20' tall
- Mature Width: 15-20' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 10-15' apart
Overlease Pawpaw
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SWEET AND CREAMY BANANA FLAVORED PAWPAW
FEATURES:
- Velvet burgundy flowers blooms in spring
- Produces large green fruits that have a creamy banana flavor with its sweet and custardy flesh
- In spring and summer, foliage is dark green
- Fall foliage is a brilliant golden color
- Will easily fill your landscape with beautiful blooms and bountiful shade
- Popular with home and commercial growers since 1950
- Hand Selected, Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Photo Credit: ©Nova-Photo-Graphik GmbH® Overlease Pawpaw
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-8
- Mature Height: 15-20' tall
- Mature Width: 15-20' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 10-15' apart
Why plant Overlease Pawpaw?
Turn your backyard into an island vacation with Overlease Pawpaw trees! This delightful tropical fruit ripens in fall to keep the summer vibes going! Deep purple blooms emerge in spring in a unique shape. The foliage opens as a bright green, long leaf which has a fun and tropical feel! By fall, the foliage turns a gorgeous golden color. Cut open the fruit to a creamy custard, eat it up with a spoon or enjoy in a smoothie to add a mango-pineapple taste. This cold-hardy tree will quickly become the center of attention in your garden. Enjoy sitting under the canopy of elongated leaves on a summer day, just to reach up and have a snack!
Way down yonder in the Pawpaw patch... so goes the old folk song celebrating this beloved native plant, which has a long history in America. Pawpaw was valued in ancient times by Native Americans, and the delicious fruits later nourished European settlers and explorers like Lewis and Clark. Human aren’t the only ones who delight in this yummy fruit treat—wildlife love pawpaws, too. The foliage feeds the young of the dazzling white, black, and red zebra swallowtail butterfly. In fact, Pawpaw is the ONLY thing that zebra swallowtail caterpillars will eat, which is reason enough to grow this splendid tree.
How to use Overlease Pawpaw in the landscape?
Overlease Pawpaws produce copious amounts of shade, so you'll want to use that to your advantage! Plant them in your backyard near your outdoor furniture to relax in the shade. As the have beautiful golden fall color, they make an amazing front yard ornamental tree as well. There really is no wrong answer when planting this Pawpaw!
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 5-8
How To Plant Overlease Pawpaw
Pawpaw’s home in the wild is at forest edges or in the woodland understory, and it appreciates similar conditions in the landscape. It is happiest in a site with rich, organic-laden, well-drained soil and a generous layer of mulch. It flourishes in shade but will tolerate full sun if it is shaded for the first few years and if regular irrigation can be provided. This tree doesn’t like constantly soggy soil, but it doesn’t like to dry out, either.
How To Water
Be sure to give your Overlease a deep watering when freshly planted! Pawpaw trees will need roughly around an inch of water a week. Make sure to keep the surrounding soil moist throughout the growing season.
How To Fertilize
For a wonderful production of fruits, fertilize your Overlease Pawpaw twice each year - once in spring, then again in fall. We recommend using our Elements Starter Plant Food in granular form to give your plant the boost it needs!
How To Prune
Suckers may appear around the tree—this is simply Pawpaw’s natural growth habit. You may pull or mow off the suckers to maintain the tree as a single-trunked specimen, or you may let them grow to allow a Pawpaw patch of your own to form.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
*For Big trees and Shrubs, Size XL and bigger: Review our Seasonal Shipping Timelines and Policy here.
Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
Our Guarantees
3-YEAR-TREE GUARANTEE:
Bower & Branch offers a Three-Year Tree Guarantee on all of our trees, sizes X-Large and up. Only the finest and the most experienced growers are awarded the opportunity to grow for Bower & Branch, so we offer the best guarantee available.
If your tree(s) should fail for any reason during the three-year guarantee period, you will receive an online gift card in the amount that you originally spent on the tree.* You can then use this online gift card for any Bower & Branch Purchase.
* Bower & Branch provides online gift cards in the amount of the original purchase price of the tree(s). The amount does not include any additional costs such as delivery, planting, tax, or any other products or services. Online gift cards can be applied towards any Bower & Branch purchase on BowerandBranch.com and have no expiration dates. Bower & Branch does not guarantee tree replacement or availability of any desired product at any time. Cash refunds are not offered. Bower & Branch requires that all original tags and receipts are present when a guarantee request is initiated. The Bower & Branch Three-Year Guarantee only applies to plant material that has been planted in the ground. Container plantings are NOT covered.
At Bower & Branch, we do our best to honor all guarantee fulfillment requests to ensure customer satisfaction. However, we reserve the right to refuse the request if the required guarantee steps were not satisfied. Bower & Branch also reserves the right to deny any guarantee fulfillment request that is made as a result of animal damage, problems with plant hardiness and zone issues, or acts of nature (snow storms, hurricanes, and similar).
Reach out to a Plant Whisperer with any questions:
- Email: plantwhisperers@bowerandbranch.com
- Phone: 866-873-3888
- Or via Online Chat
