Please ID this plant

[jez251]

Hi,

I just noticed this plant flowering and fruiting for the first time. The flowers fell off after trying to get a better look at them, but they were small, yellow, sweet-smelling flowers.





Thanks,
Jaime

[Doug]

Looks like a paw paw to me. But growing that far south?

[jez251]

The size of the fruit may not be easy to figure out from the pic, but they are about 1.5 - 2 in. long.

Jaime

[Triphal]

 This is not a tropical tree now. ( Eons ago it was a tropical tree in N.American continent related to the custard apple family ) It needs at least  3 weeks of chilling around 35 to 40 degrees. So you should post this in the 'Temperate zone' fruit section and may get more responses. Incidentally over 80% of American  (USA) do not know about this indigenous fruit. As the Pawpaw has long taproot it may not be ideal to grow it as a container plant hence needs to be in the ground.

[sildanani]

Looks like a paw paw to me. But growing that far south?

The member noted yellow flowers. I'm pretty sure paw paw flowers are not yellow though. Still an Annonaceae.

[wayne23]

According to this website it matches a Florida native Bigflower pawpaw.

http://www.floridasnature.com/natives8.html

[Triphal]

Pawpaws mostly has purple flowers but have about 15% greenish yellow flowers. When the fruits first sets up most of the non-pollinated flowers crumple dry out and fall. The yellow flowers take longer time to wither and drop. Pawpaw flowers are not sweet smelling but stinky, the reason for repelling bees.

[jez251]

As an FYI, I have never planted pawpaw seeds knowing their native range. The yellow flowers were definitely fragrant.

Thanks,
Jaime

[Triphal]

Thanks for the information. I will smell both the purple and greenish yellow flowers of pawpaws next spring.

[jez251]

Here are some new flowers that are just starting to open up, very fragrant.




Jaime

[Zpusher]

Definitely some sort of annonaceae. Looks similar to Asimina parviflora...

[Botanicus]

I think that may be Meiogyne cylindrocarpa

[sytanta]

I think that may be Meiogyne cylindrocarpa

Looks correct to me.

[jez251]

Thanks, Botanicus.

I did plant a bunch of Australian fingerlimes quite a few years ago. Gonna be selling some of these plants soon, locally.

Thanks again,
Jaime