Asimina triloba |
Native Region: Eastern North America
Zone Range: 5-9
Preferred Climate: Semi sun; well draining humus rich well draining soil.
Harvest Date: Monday 16 November, 2009
Seed count: 8-10
Description:
A unique tropical looking small tree adapted to the understory to tall hardwoods of the Carnolian forest. Dark red/maroon thick petaled flowers resemble whiskerless double Asarum. Edible 250 gram vitamin packed green fruits are great for eating out of hand or used in custard pies. The taste is somewhere between vanilla pudding and banana. Lovely green obovate leaves have an long drip tip. Lovely butter to golden yellow autumn colour. Grows to 10 meters tall with half the spread. Great for a small orchard. You need two for fruit production as they don't recognize their own pollen.
Notes:
Northern source seed from Zone 5. Beautiful cold moist stored seed from a seed exchange. We had great germination last year. Protect seedlings from pesky nibblers, but older plants seem immune to pests.
Cultivation:
Seed dies if stored dry so our seed is kept in moist peat at 3-5 C for storage and to initiate the cold stratification needed to break dormancy. Cold stratify 60 days at 4 C then expose to 20-25 C to germinate. Provide strong indirect light never full sun. Use deep pots when germinating in containers as it has one heck of a tap root.
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