Flora of North America species comparison

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Carica

papaya
Habit Trees relatively short-lived.
Leaves

crowded distally on branches; glabrous.
Inflorescences

staminate 100+-flowered, elongate;

pistillate 1–several-flowered.
Flowers

each borne in axil of bract.
Berries

slightly 5-angled.
x

= 9.

Carica
Distribution
from USDA
Central America; South America [Introduced, Fla.; introduced also pantropically]
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Discussion

Species, in the traditional sense, ca. 20 (1 in the flora).

V. M. Badillo (2000) considered Carica to consist of only one species (C. papaya), others being reassigned to the genus Vasconcellea A. Saint-Hilaire.

Some species of Carica in the traditional sense are grown for their edible fruits or sweet and juicy seed coverings (arils), the most important being C. papaya.

Species, in the traditional sense, ca. 20 (1 in the flora)

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 171.
Parent taxa Caricaceae
Subordinate taxa
C. papaya
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1036. (1753): Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 458. (1754)
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