← pawpaw
trademarked name
Potomac
A named pawpaw cultivar.
The record
- Parentage
- not recorded
- Origin
- Neal Peterson · Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
- Rights
- trademarked name — Sold as Potomac™ by Peterson Pawpaws. A trademark application was filed 10 January 2010.
- Also known as
- Potomac™
Description
A Peterson selection out of the programme he built from the Blandy germplasm. By 1982 he had nine hundred seedlings planted at the University of Maryland’s Wye Research and Education Center, and by 1996 had picked the best eighteen out of roughly fifteen hundred trees.
Where to find it
- Peterson Paw Paws the trademark holder