Papaya, Pawpaw
Carica papaya · Caricaceae · 파파야
How to spot it
An herbaceous habit: an unbranched, non-woody single trunk topped with large palmate leaves gathered like an umbrella.
Look
- Leaves
- Large palmately divided leaves gather at the top of the trunk; the petiole can be 1 m long.
- Flowers
- Fragrant, trumpet-shaped, yellowish-white flowers.
- Fruit
- Large, fleshy, melon-shaped fruit, green when young and ripening orange-yellow; the seeds are sometimes ground as a pepper substitute.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to Central America.