The papaya ( from Carib via Spanish ), papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae.

Carica papaya plants and their fruits are known by different names around the English-speaking world:

* Pawpaw, both the tropical Carica papaya and the North American Asimina triloba

# Papaya * ( Carica papaya )

* Papaya or pawpaw or papaw ( Carica papaya ), a tropical fruit tree native to the Americas, and introduced in Australia, where it is called " pawpaw "

It thrives around human habitation, and will take some cultivated fruit like papayas ( Carica papaya ).

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Papain, also known as papaya proteinase I, is a cysteine protease () enzyme present in papaya ( Carica papaya ) and mountain papaya ( Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis ).

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# REDIRECT Carica papaya

Carica is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caricaceae including one species, Carica papaya, the papaya ( syn.

* Carica papaya ( Papaya )

* Carica pubescens = Vasconcellea pubescens ( Mountain papaya or Chilean Carica )

The fruit is pentagonal in shape, therefore giving it the scientific name of Carica pentagona.

Lemprière notes that " As Caria probably abounded in figs, a particular sort has been called Carica, and the words In Care periculum facere, have been proverbially used to signify the encountering of danger in the pursuit of a thing of trifling value.

While pepos are most common in the Cucurbitaceae, the fruits of Passiflora and Carica are sometimes also considered pepos.

The library of the oldest school at Cetinje today known as Njegoš Elementary School dates back to 1834, the library of the clerical college and the Carica Marija Girls ’ Institute dates back to 1869, and the library of the Gymnasium to 1880.

A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Carica L. ( Caricaceae ) based on restriction fragment length variation in a cpDNA intergenic spacer region.

Carica L. vs. Vasconcella St. Hil.

The mountain papaya, Vasconcellea pubescens, also known as mountain paw paw, is a species of the genus Vasconcellea, native to the Andes of northwestern South America from Colombia south to central Chile, typically growing at altitudes of m. It has also been known as Carica pubescens.

Carica pentagona ), is a hybrid cultivar in the genus Vasconcellea from Ecuador.

Carica pubescens ), and Vasconcellea stipulata ( syn.

The babaco is classified as a herbaceous shrub like Carica papaya ( pawpaw or papaya ) but unlike papaya it produces only female flowers.

In 2002, researchers fed extracts from the seeds of papaya fruits ( Carica papaya ) to monkeys.

Trees were planted on the sandbank and it is said that the first tree that grew on it was the papaya tree.

However this could refer to any tree that bears edible fruit as the archaic Dhivehi word ( and Mahal word even today ) for fruit was the same as that for the papaya ( falhoa ).

This was so successful that by 2010, 80 % of Hawaiian papaya plants were genetically modified.

The New York Times stated that " in the early 1990s, Hawaii ’ s papaya industry was facing disaster because of the deadly papaya ringspot virus.

The original formulation of Hawaiian Punch was composed of 7 fruit flavors: apple, apricot, guava, orange, papaya, passion fruit, and pineapple.

Historically, maca was often traded for lowland tropical food staples, such as corn, rice, manioc ( tapioca roots ), quinoa and papaya.

Biocon ’ s first product to go to market was peptinpapain, an enzyme found in papaya which is used to prevent beer from turning hazy.

The genus was formerly treated as including about 20-25 species of short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small trees growing to 5-10 m tall, native to tropical Central and South America, but recent genetic evidence has resulted in all of these species other than C. papaya being reclassified into three other genera.

It formerly was a coconut plantation, and cash crops such as papaya and cotton were also grown.

Since the first commercial cultivation of genetically modified plants in 1996, they have been modified to be tolerant to the herbicides glufosinate and glyphosate, to be resistant to virus damage as in Ringspot virus-resistant GM papaya, grown in Hawaii, and to produce the Bt toxin, an insecticide that is documented as non-toxic to mammals.

Specifically, pineapple contains the protease ( protein cutting enzyme ) bromelain, kiwi fruit contains actinidin, figs contain ficain, and papaya contains papain.

* United Kingdom: The fruit is usually called papaya but is also known as papaw or pawpaw

The papaya is also susceptible to the fruit fly, a small, wasp-like insect that lays its eggs in young fruit.

Danielone is a phytoalexin found in the papaya fruit.

Popular and commonly available fruits produced in Australia are typically: apples, banana, kiwi fruit, oranges and other citrus, mangoes ( seasonally ), pears, nectarines, plums, apricots, grapes, melons, pawpaw, papaya, pineapple, passionfruit and berry fruits ( such as strawberries, raspberries etc .).

* Cầu Dừa Đủ Xoài-In southern Vietnam, popular fruits used for offerings at the family altar in fruit arranging art are the custard-apple / sugar-apple / soursop ( mãng cầu ), coconut ( dừa ), papaya ( đu đủ ), and mango ( xoài ), since they sound like " cầu vừa đủ xài " ( pray for enough to use ) in the southern dialect of Vietnamese.

In some regions of Mexico, a fruit salad ( watermelon, orange, jícama, cucumber and sometimes melon and papaya ) tossed in lime juice and hot sauce or chamoy and sprinkled with a salty chili powder is also known as pico de gallo ; it is a popular snack and usually sold outside schools, while the tomato-based condiment is better known as salsa picada, which means minced or chopped sauce, salsa mexicana or salsa bandera ( flag sauce ), because the colors – red ( tomato ), white ( onion ), and green ( chili ) – are the colors of the Mexican flag.

Root vegetables such as cassava ( locally known as mandioca, aipim, or macaxeira ), yams, and peanuts, and fruit like açaí, cupuaçu, mango, papaya, guava, orange, passionfruit, pineapple, and hog plum are among the local ingredients used in cooking.

Fruit, which is required a few times a week, may be small pieces of papaya, banana, fruit based baby food, or commercial gecko nectars.

The bird is largely frugivorous on mangos, ripe jack, papaya, banana, figs and similar cultivated fruit trees.

* Mountain papaya ( Vasconcellea pubescens ) or mountain paw paw, a fruit tree native to South America

Some products sold as dried fruit, like papaya and pineapples are actually candied fruit.

When the fruit is soft-ripe / fresh-ripe and still has the fresh, fully mature greenish / greenish-yellowish skin color, the texture is like that of a soft-ripe pear and papaya.

Veracruz recipes use corn, beans and squash, much like the rest of Mexico, but Veracruzians ' diets are also typically supplemented by tropical foods such as chili peppers, tomatoes, avocados, papaya, mamey and sapote fruit.

Other plant proteases include papain ( from the papaya ), actinidin ( from the kiwi fruit ), and ficin ( from the fig ).

" Other popular fruits include: the jan fruit, kuy fruit, romduol, pineapple, star apple, rose apple, coconut, palmyra fruit, jackfruit, papaya, watermelon, banana, mango and rambutan.