The United States is known as a great melting of people ... the more than 570 recognized American Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities. Each of these tribes has their distinct food traditions.

Walking around the urban oasis that is Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, one wouldn’t expect to find pawpaws – the largest edible fruit native to North America – growing alongside tombstones.

The hedge apple tree, also known as the Osage orange, is a native tree growing in the south of the United States. Native to ... While the strange-looking fruit is not edible, this tree species ...

If you grew up in the eastern United States, you may have heard this folksong ... has come back into the forefront. The largest fruit native to North America, the pawpaw is the only temperate ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Pawpaw fans look to one time of year to enjoy a tropical-looking fruit born to the United States only in early fall. The pawpaw plant, indigenous to North American ...

You might think that these native succulents are better suited ... Found growing across much of the southwestern United ...

Have you ever tried pawpaw fruit? Though it's native to every county ... news reporter for the Asheville Citizen Times, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at [email protected].

Pawpaws are North America’s largest native fruit — and are exceedingly rare ... As temperatures warm, and growing zones in the United States shift to reflect the changes in where plants ...

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Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... Generally, strawberries and brambles bear fruit quickly and have minimal problems. Blueberries are native to North America and are a little more ...