Susan shows off the petal morphology of pawpaws with this Woolly Pawpaw specimen. Woolly Pawpaw ranges from Highlands County to South Georgia, oddly skipping over many Central Florida counties like Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Seminole. While other pawpaw species have flowers that smell lovely, Woolly Pawpaw flowers smell like rotting meat. This may be the source of its other common name, Polecat Bush, where polecat is a historic Floridian name for a skunk. The leaves feed a butterfly caterpillar:

53K views · 954 reactions | The Asimina Triloba (PawPaw) is a tree that is native to North American! They produce the largest fruit of a tree native to the United States. | Reelfoot Lake State Park | Facebook