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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.