{"id":659,"date":"2024-04-18T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/?page_id=659"},"modified":"2024-08-27T22:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:07:03","slug":"papaya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/resources\/plantid\/fruits-and-nuts\/papaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Papaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plant Identification Learning Module:<br>Fruits &amp; Nuts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"intro\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Papaya (<em>Carica papaya<\/em>)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaya trees can grow 10 to 12 feet high. Leaves with deeply\u00a0<em>lobed margins<\/em>\u00a0are on <em>petioles<\/em> one- to four-foot long. Flowers range from yellow to white. Papayas are a large, round, broadly pear-shaped fruit. They can be six to twenty inches long, four to eight inches wide, and weigh up to twenty pounds. The skin is thin and yellow or yellowish-green at maturity. The flesh is yellow-orange or red and somewhat firm. The center of the fruit is a large cavity lined with soft, black, pea-sized seeds. Papayas, including wild forms, grow throughout warmer areas of Central and South Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/papaya_tree.jpg\" alt=\"Papaya tree\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>(cc) 2006, Severino. This photo is licensed under&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/papaya_leaf.jpg\" alt=\"Papaya leaf\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Public domain<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/papaya_open.jpg\" alt=\"Papayas, one cut in half\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>USDA<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/papaya_femalef.jpg\" alt=\"Papaya female flower \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Female Flower Photo by Roger Hammer<\/strong><br><strong>\u00a9 Wunderlin, R. P., and B. F. Hansen. 2008.&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/florida.plantatlas.usf.edu\/Plant.aspx?id=3116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/papaya_malef.jpg\" alt=\"Male flower of papaya\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Male Flower Photo by Roger Hammer<\/strong><br><strong>\u00a9 Wunderlin, R. P., and B. F. Hansen. 2008.&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/florida.plantatlas.usf.edu\/Plant.aspx?id=3116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-659","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions\/3939"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}