Florence White Pawpaw Tree | Peaceful Heritage Nursery
Florence White Pawpaw Tree | Peaceful Heritage Nursery
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An amazing new Kentucky pawpaw that can produce delicious fruit over one pound! This resilient, productive, and delicious marshmallow-vanilla flavored pawpaw is one of our favorites! When just ripe off the tree it has a COCONUT flavor that mellows into marshmallow-vanilla as the white flesh ripens further into light gold in color. It is mostly FREESTONE and the seeds separate easily from the pulp!
In our pawpaw trials 'Florence White' grows strong and vigorously, is disease-resistant and produces large, attractive, very tasty, sweet fruit with nice thick texture and low seed weight. 'Florence White' was one of the few pawpaws to produce fruit in 2023 and 2025 due to spring frosts showing that even in a hard spring season, it can successfully produce fruit. In 2025 it produced fruits that were nearly 500 grams (17+ ounces)
This pawpaw came to us via pawpaw enthusiast Scott Cox in Florence, KY. He discovered it growing wild in a park in Florence, KY, whereupon we obtained scions and grafted it in 2019. Blake thinks due to it's high number of superior qualities (size of fruit, low seed weight, excellent flavor, freestone seeds, resiliency in production) that it would be an excellent pawpaw for future hybridization.
The nearly white flesh, large tasty fruits, resiliency, and overall superior qualities make this new pawpaw highly desirable. Peaceful Heritage Nursery Exclusive!
NATURALLY GROWN
Pollination: An Ultra-Select seedling pawpaw or any other grafted cultivar or seedling pawpaw tree will pollinate it. For good pollination, plant trees 8-15 ft away from each other only. Pawpaws are not male and female, but rather have “male and female” flower parts on each flower. Every tree is capable of bearing fruit if pollinated well with pollen from another genetically different pawpaw tree. Hand pollination results in heaviest fruit set.
Resistant to: Shows good disease resistance to Phylosticta as well as spring frosts. Pawpaws are generally remarkably disease and insect resistant. See our pawpaw growing article for full information. https://mediaspearhead.com/peacefulpawpaw-frequently-asked-questions/
Ripening: Mid Season
Site requirements: Full sun location for best fruit production. Pawpaws will grow in shade but produce much less fruit. Pawpaws tolerate a range of soil types provided the planting location is well drained and there is heavy mulch and plenty of fertilizer and water. Protected locations, such as on the South, East or West side of a building is ideal on very windy sites and is recommended.
Size at maturity: 15-20′ tall and wide, depending on location, care and pruning to reduce height. We recommend heading them at about 8-10 ft tall and removing suckers, both of which keep the trees very manageable and small.
Hardiness: USDA zones 5-9. (Estimate)
Plant size: Grafted, with an excellent root system. CHOOSE SIZE
Shipped March-October only. Sorry, we cannot ship potted pawpaws to: CA, TX, AZ, NM, NV, OR, WA, FL, ID, UT.
