Pawpaws 2023

There is a pawpaw cultivar list on this site listing when breed or discovered, by whom & who sells it.
However, understand there are numerous mistakes even in some of the scientific literature.
Like NC-1 might not be a (Davis x Overleese) hybrid & is only a genetic distance of 2 from Potomac, but a distance of 7 from Overleese. Shenandoah is a distance of 11 from Overleese.
Susquehanna is 86.2% identical to Wabash, but only 70% identical to Potomac its presumed sibling.
If you do publish something, then the flaws in current documentation need to be corrected rather than proliferated.
More genetic tests need to be done!

BEF#53 was most likely pollinated by BEF#30 to create Susquehanna(11-5)
BEF#30 was most likely pollinated by BEF#53 to make Wabash(1-7-2)
Potomac (4-2) most likely had the same pollination parent as (2-10) else they would not have a genetic distance of 2.

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