Is a pawpaw common in central Indiana?
Native and genuinely common in central Indiana bottomlands, creek corridors and shady rich woods, where it forms dense clonal thickets in the understory; Purdue extension calls it the Indiana banana. It is now also planted on purpose for fruit, which requires two genetically different trees for cross-pollination — a detail worth raising before anyone removes the second tree in a pair.
Why that matters for tree work
Pawpaw is almost never a removal — it is the tree people call to identify, because a patch of small tropical-looking trees appeared in the shady back corner of the lot and they want to know if it is a problem. The answer is usually no, and the real conversation is about the fruit and whether the patch can be thinned rather than cleared.
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