Anybody know what this is? A lady I work with moved into a different house, and this is in her lawn. I've tried to look it up, and of course, there are a million similar looking plants.
Hmm. It seems like another mixed bag. I was hoping it would be obvious to someone, but it must be a real mystery plant. We showed it to an avid outdoorsman and two ag teachers, and they were puzzled too.
Definitely a PawPaw. I posted this picture the other day of the last tree on the farm. As Alison noted mine is struggling compared to the tree in the OP which is lush with leaves but it is a pawpaw.
This picture is a tree on the farm. Taken last week. You can see the hanging fruit.
Chestnuts have more spines from the time they start to grow. Neighbor has a chestnut orchard, with a hybrid, that they harvest the chestnuts from each fall. I don't think it is a chestnut.
There may be different varieties of paw paw, but it doesn't strike me as paw paws I have seen. I once had a paw paw tree in my lawn, and we have them in the woods here, and it just doesn't look like them.