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Papaya Plant and fruit, from Koehler's Medicinal-Plants (1887) Conservation status Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Order: Brassicales Family: Caricaceae Genus: Carica Species: C. papaya Binomial name Carica papaya L. The papaya, papaw, is the plant species Carica papaya, one of the 21 ...
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The mountain papaya fruit is harvested when it is anywhere from 5–20 centimetres (2.0–7.9 in) long, 5–6 centimetres (2.0–2.4 in) in diameter, and an average weight of 200 grams (7.1 oz). [7] During fruit softening the fruit undergoes textural changes due to cell wall modifications that occur through the synergistic action of a complex ...
Carica papaya L. The species that have since been transferred to their new genera are as follows: Carica baccata = Vasconcellea microcarpa subsp. baccata; Carica candamarcensis = Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis (Mountain papaya) Carica candicans = Vasconcellea candicans (Mito) Carica caudata = Jarilla heterophylla; Carica cauliflora ...
An apple tree sprout is being converted to a branched, fruit-bearing spur by an arborist. Numbers show the sequence of cuts, which occurred during two years. Plants form new tissue in an area called the meristem, located near the tips of roots and shoots, where active cell division takes place.
Some species, such as the papaya, bear edible fruit and produce papain. [3] Based on molecular analyses, this family has been proposed to have originated in Africa in the early Cenozoic era, ~66 million years ago (mya). The dispersal from Africa to Central America occurred ~35 mya, possibly via ocean currents from the Congo delta.
The fruit differs from the related papaya (C. papaya) in being narrower, typically less than 10 cm in diameter. The babaco fruit is seedless and the smooth skin can be eaten, and is said to have tastes of strawberry, papaya, kiwi and pineapple. The fruit is pentagonal in shape, therefore giving it the scientific name of Vasconcellea pentagona.
The papaya mealybug inserts its stylet into the epidermis of the leaf or the skin of fruit or stem and feeds on the plant sap. At the same time it injects a toxic substance into the plant which results in chlorosis , distortion, stunting, early leaf and fruit fall, the production of honeydew , sooty mould and possibly the death of the plant.