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Brazilian Pawpaw
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Brazilian pawpaw is an English folk/trade alias sometimes applied to soursop—risking confusion with Asimina triloba (North American pawpaw) and papaya. True product meant is usually A. muricata’s white tart-cream flesh. Clarify species before culinary or planting decisions. If fruit is large, green, soft-spined, and tropical, treat as soursop: seed out, juice on. Do not use temperate pawpaw recipes interchangeably. Label modern packs soursop/guanábana to reduce alias harm.
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English speakers used pawpaw loosely for several tropical fruits including soursop.
Brazilian trade contexts occasionally exported the Brazilian pawpaw wording.
Horticultural writers warned about pawpaw name confusions.
Best practice shifted to soursop/guanábana over Brazilian pawpaw.