Ok all y’all folks have been driving me crazy, so I had to go on the hunt this afternoon. I was quite surprised to find several fruits in an area along a creek (of course). As a bonus I also found a small baggie’s worth of spicebush
The pawpaws are pretty small. Also, it’s always a problem for me to be tempted to pick fruit I would normally consider not-ready, because I figure I won’t be back or won’t beat the critters if I wait. Only a couple of these were as soft as I would pick in my own orchard.
Honestly many of the spicebush berries were not as mature as I’d like either.
