Pickin’ up pawpaws: Meet the midwestern ‘tropical’ fruit thriving in one corner of Nebraska

SOMEWHERE IN INDIAN CAVE STATE PARK – I’ve promised not to tell you where exactly I am. That’s how protective hunters of this elusive fruit can be. All you really need to know, all you can know, is that I had to duck under branches and high-step through overgrown grass and vines to get to this sunken patch of trees in this state park near Brownville.

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