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The papaya (from Carib via Spanish), is the fruit of the plant Carica
papaya, in the genus Carica. It is native to the tropics of the Americas,
and was cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the
Mesoamerican classic cultures.Papaya is also known as PEnPe (Bengali:
?????), fruta bomba (Cuba), lechoza (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the
Philippines and the Dominican Republic), mamão (Brazil), papaw (Sri Lankan
English), Papol Guslabu (Tree melon in Sinhalese), pawpaw or tree melon, as
well as tree melon (??) in Chinese and ?u ?? in Vietnamese.
It is a large tree-like plant, the single stem growing from 5 to 10 m
tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk; the
lower trunk is conspicuously scarred where le
