Tag Archives: Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)

Autumn Pawpaw Colors

October 16, 2025

In the grand scheme of things, Pawpaw (Asimina triloba), offers little in the way of brilliant autumn color. Providing shades of soft yellow to tan coloring to the surrounding show of many hues.

Growing in the shade of the woods up here, the small trees grow to 15 or 20 feet in height. They send out root suckers which will create many genetically identical trees, a Pawpaw patch or a colony of clones of the parent tree. In order to produce fruit there need to be two genetically different trees for pollination. Which explains why I see many Pawpaw trees together in a patch but no fruit.

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Subtle Autumn Colors With Pawpaws

We think of this time of year as synonymous with rich warm colors. Pawpaw trees (Asimina triloba) listen to a different drummer though. This picture above was taken yesterday. Summer’s emerald green fading to subtle shades of yellow.

This image will be what I’ll be seeing at this same colony of Pawpaws in a couple weeks, showing subdued yellows and tans.

These small trees multiply into colonies by way of basal shoots. “New” trees emerge from these shoots but are actually a single colony of trees that are genetically identical.

Nature is amazing.

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