Asimina pygmaea, the dwarf pawpaw or gopher berry, is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Florida and Georgia in the United States.[2] William Bartram, the American naturalist who first formally described the species using the basionym Annona pygmaea, named it after its dwarfed (pygmaeus in Latin) stature.[3][4]
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^Bartram, William (1791). Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, etc. Philadelphia: James and Johnson. p. 18.
Asiminapygmaea, the dwarf pawpaw or gopher berry, is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Florida and Georgia in the United States...
Southern states from Texas to Virginia. Asiminapygmaea (W. Bartram) Dunal – dwarf pawpaw. Florida and Georgia. Asimina reticulata Shuttlw. ex Chapman – netted...
slightly larger. This plant sometimes hybridizes with its relative, Asiminapygmaea. This plant occurs in slash pine woods on wet, sandy substrates among...