Papaya

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Papaya
Papaya trunk with immature fruit
Papaya trunk with immature fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Brassicales
Family: Caricaceae
Genus: Carica
Species: C. papaya
Binomial name
Carica papaya
L.

The papaya, also known as mamão, tree melon, fruta bomba, lechosa (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and the Dominican Republic), or pawpaw is the fruit of the tree Carica papaya, in the genus Carica. The fruit is orange with small tiny black seeds that are like small circles. They are found in warm tropical places (such as Argentina, Brazil, India and Sri Lanka etc.) They got introduced in America a long time ago by Carolus Linnaeus. Probaly found in the 1760s (like his other discoveries) it is a very old discovery of fruit.


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