papaya plant

papaya plant

A large tree-like herb with a soft stem, deeply lobed leaves and melon-like fruits clustered near its top.

Carica papaya

All languages

English: papaya plant
Norwegian: papayaplante
Japanese: パパイア — ぱぱいあ — papaia
Korean: 파파야 — papaya
Spanish: papayo
French: papayer
German: Papayapflanze

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Reference sources

Singapore NParks — papaya herbaceous unbranched non-woody leaf-scarred stem, umbrella palmate-lobed crown and upper-stem fruit clusters
Singapore Botanic Gardens Gardenwise — papaya is a large perennial herb rather than true woody tree, with cylindrical leaf-scarred stem and palmate leaves