British Bulldog Pawpaw Description

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The British Bulldog is a late season pawpaw with strong flavoured sweet, medium-large fruits with a darker flesh. One of the high quality pawpaws if you are looking for strong flavours. Needs another pawpaw as a pollinator. We would only plant this pawpaw in a warm sheltered area. It is a lovely pawpaw tree.

 

A fantastic choice if you already have pawpaws and are looking for one that may not ripen every year but is of high quality.

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Pollination: A seedling pawpaw or any other grafted cultivar or seedling pawpaw tree will pollinate it. For good pollination, plant trees 8-15 ft away from each other only. Pawpaws are not male and female, but rather have “male and female” flower parts on each flower. Every tree is capable of bearing fruit if pollinated well with pollen from another genetically different pawpaw tree. Hand pollination results in heaviest fruit set.

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Resistant to: Pawpaws are generally remarkably disease and insect resistant. See our pawpaw growing article for full information.

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Ripening: Late Season 

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Site requirements: Full sun location for best fruit production. Pawpaws will grow in shade but produce much less fruit. Pawpaws tolerate a range of soil types provided the planting location is well drained and there is heavy mulch and plenty of fertilizer and water. Protected locations, such as on the South, East or West side of a building is ideal on very windy sites.

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Size at maturity: 15-20′ tall and wide, depending on location, care and pruning to reduce height. We recommend heading them at about 10″ and removing suckers, both of which keep the trees very manageable and small.

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We are often asked "What is the best tasting pawpaw?". There is no definitive answer to this question, it depends on your climate and individual taste buds!

 

Some of the best flavoured pawpaws are: Summer Delight Pawpaw, Maria's Joy Pawpaw, Honey Dew Pawpaw, Tropical Treat Pawpaw, Chappell Pawpaw, Atwood Pawpaw, Overleese Pawpaw, Caspian Pawpaw, Halvin Pawpaw and Prima Pawpaw.

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You may also want to try a persimmon tree: Prok Persimmon, Chinebuli Persimmon, Nakita's Gift Persimmon, Gora Roman Kosh Persimmon, Jt-02 Lehman Persimmon, Dar Sophievki Persimmon, Barbra's Blush Persimmon, H-63 Persimmon.

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Pawpaws (Asimina Triloba) are related to custard apples and cherimoya, in the sugar apple family, and yet they grow in the temperate zone, having moved north as Ice Age glaciers receded. Flavours of mango, melon, banana, raspberry and pineapple come from this creamy fruit. Like many fruits, if you don’t know what you’re doing and you let them get bruised, or you pick them under-ripe they won't taste very good!