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09/19/2026

Lots of pawpaws and more to buy at the WV Pawpaw Festival today at WVU Core Arboretum It is free and open to all:12-5 pm. Live music, food trucks, plants, and more!! We hope to see you here!

09/17/2026

There will be more than pawpaws at the West Virginia Pawpaw Festival this Saturday. We are excited to announce some of the musicians who will be performing in our Woodland Amphitheater at the Festival this year! Barn Dog Philharmonic will be on the stage at 1:30 with their bluegrass and acoustic music. More acts from WVU Mon Hills Music Group will be announced soon. WV Pawpaw Festival is Saturday, Sept 19, 12-5 pm, and it is free and open to the public. We will have music on the stage most of the day and a pawpaw talk at 3:00. We hope to see you there.

09/10/2026

Pawpaw Party time!! WVU Core Arboretum's Pawpaw Party will be Thursday, September 10 (tomorrow), at 6:00-7:30 or while supplies last!

Come to WVU Core Arboretum to taste wild pawpaws! Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is the largest fruit native to West Virginia. Pawpaws have a delicious, tropical flavor that some describe as a combination of banana, mango, and pineapple and a smooth, creamy texture. Pawpaws ripen in fall, and the Arboretum’s trees usually produce enough ripe fruit to gather and share with the public.

We will have a table set up in the lawn area, and all are welcome to stop by and try a pawpaw. We will also have literature about pawpaws and how to grow the pawpaw seeds that you will be left with after trying the fruit. Pawpaw Parties are free and open to the public, and no registration is required.

Also, don't forget that the West Virginia Pawpaw Festival will be at the Arboretum on Saturday, September 19, 12-5 pm. We will have orchard-grown, specially-selected Peterson Pawpaw varieties at the festival along with live music, food trucks, pawpaw trees and other native plants, and more. It is great to compare the wild fruit from a Pawpaw Party to the fancy fruit of the Pawpaw Festival!

08/21/2026

Come to WVU Core Arboretum for our free and public Nature Connection Series talk this Tuesday, August 25, at 6:00 at the Arboretum Amphitheater! This week's speaker is Krista Noe, Ecologist at WV Division of Natural Resources Natural Heritage Program; and her talk is titled Exploring the world of West Virginia Fireflies. Bring your friends, and don't miss this excellent talk! This will be the last talk for this summer's Nature Connection Series, but we will have a new calendar of talks next summer. Thanks to all who came out this summer!

08/18/2026

Come to WVU Core Arboretum for our free and public Nature Connection Series talk this Tuesday, August 18, at 6:00 at the Arboretum Amphitheater! This week's speaker is Max Dubansky, Farmer and Mushroom Expert at Backbone Food Farm; and his talk is titled Wild mushrooms of wild wonderful West Virginia. Bring your friends, and don't miss this excellent talk!

08/08/2026

Come to WVU Core Arboretum for our free and public Nature Connection Series talk this Tuesday, August 11, at 6:00 at the Arboretum Amphitheater! This week's speaker is Andrew Moore, Author; and his book talk is titled The Beasts of the East: The fall and rise of America's eastern wilderness. Andrew is going to bring some copies of his book to sell, too. Bring your friends, and don't miss this excellent talk!

07/31/2026

Come to WVU Core Arboretum for our free and public Nature Connection Series talk this Tuesday, August 4, at 6:00 at the Arboretum Amphitheater! This week's speaker is David Carroll, Senior Instructor at Virginia Tech Department of Geography; and his talk is titled Weather observations from the West Virginia high country. Bring your friends, and don't miss this excellent talk!

07/28/2026

We are sorry to say that we need to cancel tonight's Nature Connection Series talk (July 28) because our speaker cancelled due to unexpected out of town family obligations. Amanda agreed to reschedule her talk for next summer. Thanks for all of the excitement about this talk, and we look forward to it too.

Address

Intersection Of Monongahela Boulevard And Evansdale Drive
Morgantown, WV
26506

Telephone

(304) 293-0387

Website

http://arboretum.wvu.edu/

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