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The article covers it rather well, if you get far enough in, I thought.

This pawpaw is a fruit native to North America, and the name sharing is just coincidence. Here's the Wikipedia page for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba

Well, yes: pawpaw is a different fruit in the US Midwest, and that's what the article is about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba

Growing up in US midwest we learned the folk song with the line: "Way down yonder in the paw paw patch...".

They grow in the South and all the way to the Atlantic. Including small parts of the North Florida panhandle.

Carica papaya versus Asimina triloba