I've not had the opportunity to taste paw paw, but it does have at least one important function: it is the host plant for the zebra swallowtail, Eurytides marcellus, which is the state butterfly of Tennessee.
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I have to keep walking myself back from planting some because they stink and I probably won't like the fruit, but I also have an unreasonable desire to attract every kind of butterfly
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