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Pawpaw
Seed For Sale
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Pawpaw
Trees For Sale |
for
your
Butterfly
Garden |
Bare root
Baby Superior Seedlings |
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How
about a Pawpaw in
your patch?
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Pawpaw Trees
For
Your Butterfly Garden.
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The larvae of Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies,
Eurytides marcellus feed exclusively
on young Pawpaw foliage.
They
are found only in the vicinity of Pawpaw
trees.
The adult is of such great beauty that Pawpaw trees are often
planted
in Butterfly Gardens to attract them.
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Their
colors and patterns warn birds not to eat them,
because they are
imbued with toxic chemicals from the Pawpaw
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Larvae
Calmly
meandering among the Pawpaws, these caterpillars chew on the
edges of the leaves.
We don't begrudge them their munchings, knowing what they
will become.
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Zebra
Swallowtail Adult
We
see these lovelies fluttering around the trees in our nursery
all summer.
They alight on a likely leaf, deposit one tiny white egg,
and off they go.
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Chrysalis
We
find these randomly attached to stems, leaves and pots in
the nursery.
Sometimes
we have Zebra chrysalises for sale.
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Complete instructions on growing Pawpaw trees included with each
order.
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Some
links to Butterfly and Zebra Swallowtail
sites:
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