The Paw Paw is northern kin to a famous island tree. Do you know the local name?

JEK

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #1

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/dining/pawpaw-climate-change.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

 

amyb

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #2

Now I have an ear worm....PICKIN’. UP PAW PAWS PUT ‘EM IN MY POCKET

 

JEK

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #3

But can you name the Saint Barth cousin?

 

amyb

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #4

Papaya

 

JEK

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #5

No, a good guess though. The answer is in the article if you can recall the English translation of the local word.

 

GramChop

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #6

Corossol!

 

JEK

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #7

GramChop said:

Corossol!

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Winner! Soursop=Corossol!

 

KevinS

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #8

I would have gone with Mango, and I would have been wrong.

 

JEK

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #9

So many translations of Corossol to that word soursop made it an easy choice for me!

 

GramChop

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• Oct 20, 2020

• #10

I had been to St Barth many, many times as part of a couple or a group prior to my first solo visit and paid no attention to how we got where...I just rode along blissfully ignorant. I was reading Le Weekly (en Francaise) at Choisy one morning, planning my route to "Corossol" on the map inside the issue. Obviously, I had to ask a patron for assistance as "Corossol" was no where to be found. Alas, the name on the map was "Soursop". I've never forgotten it.