Asimina triloba (L.)
Dunal. PAWPAW. (As Uvaria triloba.)
New York: "Prof. J. Hall informs me that it grows at Lewiston ..."
Torrey (1843). Ontario: "Rich low woods near the railway below Queenston Heights.
Very abundant on Point Pelee and in the townships bordering Lake Erie, between
that point and Amherstburgh. Doubtless not rare along Lake Erie, but not
reported. (Macoun.)" Macoun (1883). "I had looked for it where I
found it in 1877, at the foot of Queenston Heights, but the forest was cut away
and the memory of its existence had passed from the people. By good fortune I
had made the acquaintance of Mr. Roderick Cameron, foreman at Niagara park in
the summer 1891, and, he being a close observer and a very good local botanist,
I asked him to look out for the tree. He found it in flower somewhere between
St. David's and the escarpment, where, I am unable to say, as I failed to find
it," Macoun (1893). "Queenston Heights, Ontario (Macoun)" Day
(1888). Ontario, Niagara Park System, Cameron (1895). Ontario: 2 miles NW of
Queenston, low land, Miller (150), May 22, 1952; Navy Island, Miller, Oct. 21,
1954; "from a tree measuring 21 inches at the butt in a grove below
Stamford, Macoun, Aug. 27, 1895 (CAN 59.169); near Niagara Falls, Macoun, May
14, 1876 (CAN 59158); Niagara Falls, Wm. Scott, July 1898, T(375); below
Queenston Heights, Macoun, July 27, 1877 (CAN); Queenston, Macoun, June 14,
1884 (CAN); Queenston Heights, M. Wilkes, May 31, 1897 (TRT); Queenston, Wm.
Scott, May 28, 1898 (TRT), Heimburger (1955). "... occurring just below
Queenston Heights ... the only other known specimens in the Niagara region are
a few trees near Decew Falls," Hamilton (1943).
Ontario:
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Morley, May 17, 1963 (NFO); Queenston, Toews, May, 1975
(NFO).
Range: sOnt. Status: Rare in Canada, Argus & White
(1977). This species is on the Rare
Plant Status List of the New York Natural Heritage Program (Young, 1992).