Paw-paw flower buds!
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Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.
infamous durian incident. Paw-paws are a well-established, reputable fruit.
They do have their quirks, though. They are dioecious, meaning any particular tree only has either male-only or female-only flowers. The flowers themselves have a mild rotting-meat smell, meant to attract beetles and flies as pollinators, and are colored in an odd mix of yellow and maroon. (I once leaned in to sniff a flower, only to have the center of it fly away. It was a moth with perfect paw-paw-flower bud" /> Our paw-paw-flower mimicry. Talk about a narrow niche.) I know a guy who suspended half a dead chicken in one of the Asimina triloba) trees produce large, mis-shapen fruits that year.
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