Dwarf Pawpaw

Flowers range from maroon to maroon and white, to maroon and green mixed. One common name is gopherberry - because golpher tortoise eat the fruit.



Specimen plant.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

difficult to establish because of long taproot.

Birds and small wildlife consume the fruit.

The fruit of dwarf pawpaw is sometimes called gopherberry because the fruit is eaten by gopher tortoises.

Flatwoods, scrub, sandhill

• Showy flowers, Showy fruits
• Larval host to the Zebra Swallowtail butterfly (Eurytides marcellus)and pawpaw sphinx (Dolba hyloeus). Pollinated by flies and beetles.