Carica

Carica papaya is a tropical evergreen tree commonly grown for its sweet-flavored, buttery-textured fruit. Carica also can be grown as a houseplant; it bears interesting deeply lobed fanlike leaves. There are two types of papaya: Hawaiian or “yellow papaya” and Mexican or “red papaya”. Yellow, Hawaiian, papaya has yellow skin when ripe. Hawaiian papayas are pear-shaped…