Pawpaw

Title: Pawpaw Author: Andrew Moore ISBN: 9781603587037 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Published: 2017 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1664449 Publisher Description: The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an organic grower's dream, requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive, and containing compounds that are among the most potent anticancer agents yet discovered. So why have so few people heard of the pawpaw, much less tasted