Taxon: Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal

Common names:

• dog-banana   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Indian-banana   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• pawpaw   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• pawpawtree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• asiminier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Papau   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• asimina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• asimina   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14; Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Asimina triloba from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan [s.], New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Kral, R. 1960. A revision of Asimina and Deeringothamnus (Annonaceae). Brittonia 12:242.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Maas, P. J. M. et al. 1994. Studies in Annonaceae. XXI. Index to species and infraspecific taxa of neotropical Annonaceae. Candollea 49:412.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Asimina triloba.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Asimina triloba.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Asimina triloba.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Annona triloba L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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