Pawpaw Ecological Survey in Michigan

by Connie Barlow / [email protected]

Also consult the Asimina triloba entry in Wikipedia. Linked Table of Topics (in 3 parts; separate webpages) PART 1: WHO ARE THE POLLINATORS? • Conclusions & Recommendations for Attracting Pollinators • Video Documentation of Pawpaw Pollinator Fieldwork • Collecting and Distributing Seeds • Other Anatomical Features of Pawpaw • Basic Elements of the Pollinator Study • Sites (Fruited and Fruitless) for Field Observations and Comparisons • STUDY AIMS with Three Alternative Hypotheses re POLLINATION • Pawpaw as an ancient flower type (CRUCIAL READING FOR SERIOUS OBSERVERS) • Pawpaw Flower Stages • Food for Pollinators • Pawpaw Pollination: Knowns and Unknowns • Probable Pollinators of Spring 2021 - Nitulidid Beetles • APPENDIX: PHOTOS of Spring 2021 surveillance at sites (insects, pawpaw stages, ecology) • South African Cycad Paper Distinguishes Casual Visitors from Effective Pollinators • Ecological Interpretations of 2021 Field Experience • BACKGROUND PAPERS for Ascertaining Ecological Interpretations • RECOMMENDATIONS for ORCHARD HABITAT MANAGEMENT • FURTHER QUESTIONS and SUGGESTIONS FOR EXPERIMENTS • Guidance for the Future Pollinator Watches • Additional POLLINATOR Information from Technical Papers PART 2: RESTORING RECIPROCITY • Appreciating Asimen: Geography and Taxonomic Relatives • Appreciating Asimen: Fully resists deer browsing • Appreciating Asimen: Prevents Invasion by Japanese Stiltgrass • Appreciating Asimen: Ethnobotany • Toward Renewing and Expanding Reciprocity • Could pawpaw help compensate for the loss of Black Ash as a fiber source? • Could pawpaw restore the subcanopy where deer are overpopulated? • Appreciating Asimen: Original Instructions • New York State: Where Pawpaw is a "Threatened Species" • What About American Persimmon? PART 3: WILD-PLANTING EXPERIMENTS • BASELINE DOCUMENTATION of a Wild Patch (Saline River, Michigan, 2020 & 2021) • Learning about Germination (2023) • Helping Forests Walk: Assisted Migration of Pawpaw • Helping Forests Walk 2025 wild-planting success along HURON RIVER, Michigan • Planting Thornapple River Slope (2022) Return to Torreya Guardians homepage Bio and Contact Info of Connie Barlow