I am in Ann Arbor and I have many secret wild paw paw spots. I find most of the trees along rivers and creeks. Come down here and we can go paw paw hunting. They are a rare tree but you can find them you just have to be willing to bushwack a lot. I have not been out to my patches this year so I am not sure if there is fruit or not.

Paw Paw Questions (3): SUNFLOWER CULTIVAR SELF-FERTILE? *The ÂSunflower Paw-Paw cultivar is often commercially listed online as self-fertile; however, some websites which seem somewhat Âscholarly seem to indicate that this cultivar has never been actually proven to be self-fertile. IÂve even seen is said that they are "partially" self-fertile  whatever that means (maybe it means unreliably, but occasionally; or maybe it means only a few of the flowers will be able to be self-compatibly fertile. Has anyone grown a single specimen and yet received fruit and/or knows the answer to this question? NATURAL POLINATION OF PAW-PAWS *I was considering, if the ÂSunflower cultivar is not really self-fertile, planting 2 separate Paw-Paw cultivars. Since they are mostly only pollinated by flies and Âscavenging beatlesÂ, how far is the most I should keep them apart? FORCED POLINATION OF PAW-PAWS Can I detach the flowers of one Paw-Paw and then bring it over to the (attached) flowers of another Paw-Paw and fertilize the flower which is not detached in this way? Thanks, Steve

Hmm, I don't know. The taste of a pawpaws changes as they get ripe. The fruity flavor diminishes in the later stages of ripening. Also, different cultivars have different taste characteristics. Maybe the fruit is over-ripened (less banana/custard/mango taste) and the type you have just doesn't taste great to you at the stage they were in. The areas of the fruit where the pulp is discolored down into the fruit is where the pulp is oxidizing. The skin was punctured, cracked, or broken down at that spot. None of the cultivars I grow have fruit that have the same coloring, when ripe, that I see in your first picture. Maybe it just looks different in the photo. Especially if the second picture (of the fruit pulp) was taken at the same stage of ripeness as the first picture, your pawpaws do seem a little different. I see quite a bit of variation between different cultivars, but nothing really like your picture. Here is a picture from HGTV's website that shows more normal ripe-fruit coloration:

Pawpaw is considered an understory tree and grows rather slow. You may consider shading the pawpaw for the first two years until the taproot has a chance to grow.