Are pawpaw roots a problem for foundations or pipes?

The defining feature is a brittle, carrot-like taproot that drives deep before the top gets any size, which is why wild-dug pawpaws almost never survive a move and why bare-root stock fails at close to 100 percent — container stock is the only reliable option. Laterals sucker freely, so what looks like a stand of separate small trees is usually one clone sharing a root system, and severed suckers die because they never built independent roots.