Twitter @juangangel Carica papaya is a species of plant from the Caricaceae family. Its fruit is commonly known as papaya, papaya melon, papaya, papaya tree melon, papaya melon, papaya tree ... This milky sap contains a very useful enzyme, papain, used as a meat tenderizer: in grills or barbecues, the juice that flows when cutting the rind of the green papaya is used to sprinkle it on the meat, which leaves it extremely tender and juicy. The palmate leaves have long peduncles and lobes, the leaves measuring up to 24 cm in diameter and the stems about 61 cm long. Alternate, agglomerated at the apex of the trunk and branches, with a long petiole; widely patent, 25-75 cm in diameter, smooth, more or less deeply palmate with robust, radiating mid-veins; the base is deeply cordate with overlapping lobes; there are 7-11 large lobes, each with a broad base or somewhat constricted and acuminate, acute apex, pinnately veined and irregularly pinnately lobed. The upper surface of the leaf is dark green or yellow-green, shiny, marked visibly by sunken yellowish-white veins and reticulated veins; below it is pale yellowish-green and opaque with prominent and visible veins and veins; the petiole is rounded, yellowish-green, tinged with light purple or violet, fistular, fragile, 25-100 cm long and 0.5-1.5 cm thick. Papaya flowers. Papaya bushes have three different kinds of feet; some with female flowers, others with hermaphrodite flowers and others with male flowers. The female flowers have a calyx formed by a very pronounced and easily distinguishable five-pointed crown or star. Above this is the ovary, covered by the sepals; these are five, yellowish-white, and when very tender, slightly touched with violet at the tip; they are not fused. The stigmas are five, yellow and fan-shaped. The fruits of this stem are large and globose. The hermaphrodite flowers have both sexes and the tree that has them has three different kinds of flowers. One called pentadria, similar to the female flower, but when the petals are separated, five stamens can be seen and the ovary is lobed. The fruits of this flower are globose and lobed. Another type of flower is called elongate and has ten stamens, arranged in two sets; the flower is elongated and cylindrical, like the ovary, giving elongated fruits. The last type of flower is intermediate or irregular, it is not a well-formed flower, forming deformed fruits. The male flowers grow on long peduncles of more than half a metre in length and at the ends of which there are clusters made up of 15 - 20 florets. The flowers are made up of a long tube made up of fused petals, inside which there are 10 stamens, placed in two groups of five each. The flower has a small rudimentary pistil and lacks stigmas. These flowers do not produce fruit, but if they do, they are elongated and of poor quality. The fruits and the [[fl123456798onga, and can be green, yellow, orange or pink. They can weigh up to 9 kg, in most cases they do not usually weigh more than 500 or 600 g, especially in a variety of dwarf plant cultivation, very productive and generally intended for export, due to their longer life after harvest and before consumption. The size of the fruits decreases depending on the age of the plant. Ovoid-oblong, pear-shaped or almost cylindrical, large, fleshy, juicy berry, grooved longitudinally on its upper part, yellowish green, yellow or yellow-orange when ripe, with one cell, orange or reddish inside with numerous parietal seeds and 10 - 25 cm or more long and 7-15 cm or more in diameter. The seeds are black, rounded or ovoid and enclosed in a transparent, subacid aril; the cotyledons are ovoid-oblong, flattened and white. It is not a demanding plant in terms of soil, and can develop in any abandoned land or even in a large pot. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carica_p...