. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 1S6 Illinois Natikai. History Survky Bulletin buds above halt-round or crescent-shaped leaf-scars. The branchlets jrive off a disagreeable odor when bruised. The genus is found only in eastern North America, where 6 species are recognized; but of these only 1 attains the size and form of a tree, the others being low shrubs of the far south. ASIMINA TRILOBA Dunal Pawpaw The Pawpaw is a decidedly small tree, with a straight bole and small spreading branches. The sharply pointed, smooth-margined, conspicu- ously obovate leaves. 10 to 12 inches long by
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 1S6 Illinois Natikai. History Survky Bulletin buds above halt-round or crescent-shaped leaf-scars. The branchlets jrive off a disagreeable odor when bruised. The genus is found only in eastern North America, where 6 species are recognized; but of these only 1 attains the size and form of a tree, the others being low shrubs of the far south. ASIMINA TRILOBA Dunal Pawpaw The Pawpaw is a decidedly small tree, with a straight bole and small spreading branches. The sharply pointed, smooth-margined, conspicu- ously obovate leaves. 10 to 12 inches long by -t to G inches wide, are light- green on the upper surface, paler beneath, and not at all hairy. The flowers, which are nearly 2 inches in diameter and stand singly on stout, hairy pedicels an inch or more long, have 3 pale green sepals, which are densely hairy on the outside, and 6 brown to deep-red petals 2 or 3 times as long as the sepals. The dark-brown to blackish fruit, 3 to 5 inches long by 1/^ to 2 inches long, has a whitish to orange, edible fiesh, within which are the large seeds. The finely grooved, dark-red twigs bear pointed, somewhat flattened, hairy buds about y& inch long. The small trunk is inclosed by thin, dark-brown, blotchy bark. The tree usually attains a height of between 30 and 40 feet. Distribution: From New York westward to Iowa and southward to Florida and eastern Texas, the Paw- paw is to be found in woods on deep, moist soils. It occurs throughout Illi- nois except in the northwestern corner of the State, and it is most abundant in the southern counties, where it grows in dense clumps beneath the larger hardwood trees. In Edgar County, in the rough uplands woods, its associates are Black Walnut, oaks, and hickory; in Wabash County, Sycamore and Burr Oak; and along Coffee Creek in Wabash County, it is common among the bottomland hickories and Fig. 74. Distribution of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pa
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