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Pawpaw Collection

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Guava, Brazilian pawpaw, and sapodilla

Guava, Brazilian pawpaw, and sapodilla
Guava tree, Psidium guajava 1, Brazilian pawpaw, Annona muricata 2, and sapodilla, Manilkara zapota 3, with fruit, flower and leaf

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Papaya tree (Carica papaya). Engraving, 19 th century

Papaya tree (Carica papaya). Engraving, 19 th century
History of Africa. 19th century. Papaya tree (Carica papaya). Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Papaya, papaw or pawpaw tree and fruit, Carica papaya

Papaya, papaw or pawpaw tree and fruit, Carica papaya, Carica papaja. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Drooping sheoak, Allocasuarina verticillata

Drooping sheoak, Allocasuarina verticillata, a nitrogen-fixing tree native to Australia. Casuarina quadrivalvis, Casuarina a quatre valves

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Seed and fruit plants

Seed and fruit plants including cacao, calabash nutmeg, pawpaw, sugar apple, durian, tea, camellia, cotton, magnolia, peony, geranium, nasturtium, etc

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Papaya or pawpaw tree with fruit

Papaya or pawpaw tree with fruit and cross section of fruit. Papayer comestible, Carica papaya. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Fig sphinx, huckleberry sphinx and pawpaw sphinx moths

Fig sphinx, huckleberry sphinx and pawpaw sphinx moths
Fig sphinx moth, Pachylia ficus 1, huckleberry sphinx, Paonias astylus 2, and pawpaw sphinx, Dolba hyloeus 3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Asimina obovata, flag pawpaw & Asimina pygmaea, dwarf pawpaw

Asimina obovata, flag pawpaw & Asimina pygmaea, dwarf pawpaw
Drawing 18 (Ewan 45) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Asimina obovata, pawpaw apple

Asimina obovata, pawpaw apple
William Bartrams botanical specimens which he named Anona grandiflora, pawpaw apple. Bartram collected these during his expedition through the southern colonies for Dr. John Fothergill

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Asimina triloba, paw paw

Asimina triloba, paw paw
Illustration from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands (1731) by Mark Catesby, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Background imagePawpaw Collection: Pawpaw Apple Manuscript

Pawpaw Apple Manuscript
William Bartrams manuscript from Book 1 Est. Florida Plants containing a description of the pawpaw apple (Anona) which he collected during his expedition to the southern colonies


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