Papaya (Carica papaya L.)

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Papaya is a plant that originated from southern Mexico and northern parts of South America, now widespread andwidely planted throughout the tropics. Carica papaya is the onlyspecies in the genus Carica.

Papaya fruit eaten the meat, both when young and ripe. Meat young fruit, leaf, flower and papaya can be used as vegetable. Meat ripe fruit eaten fresh or as a mixture of fruit cocktail. Papaya latex (foundin stems, leaves and fruit) contain the enzyme papain, a kind ofprotease, which can soften the meat and change the conformation of other proteins.

Papaya trees are generally unbranched or slightly branched, growing to 5-10 m tall with leaves that form a spiral similar to theupper trunk. Leaves pinnate five with long stalks and hollow in themiddle.


Papaya is monodioecious' (single homeless once married two) with three sexes: male plants, female, and hermaphrodite. Male plants can sometimes also produce fruit by "parthenogenesis". The fruit issterile (does not produce fertile seeds), and used as ingredients of traditional medicine. Papaya flower has a crown of pale yellow flowers with a stalk or sit on the trunk. Male flowers on male plants grow on long stalks. Flowers are usually found in the area around the tip.

Efficacy of herbs is very much, for example: used for slimming the body, cure kidney stones, cancer prevention, facilitate digestion, helps the formation of sperm, the female hormone stimulates spending and stimulate the ovaries release the female hormone and mammary gland of these hormones will be smooth and shapebreast more ideally, prevent acne, and many more benefits from these papaya plants
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