Papaya

Papaya
Papaya trunk with immature fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Caricaceae
Genus:	Carica
Binomial name
Carica papaya L.

Papaya is a tall herbaceous plant in the genus Carica; its edible fruit is also called papaya. It is native to the tropical region of America, mainly from southern Mexico to Central America. Now these plants are grown in all tropical regions of the world.^[1]

Papayas are plants of tropical regions and, for growth and fruit production, they need a warm climate. They cannot live with low temperatures.^[2]

This is now the only species in its genus. As a result of genetic research, the other species were put in three new genera.^[3][4]

1. ↑ Morton, Julia F. "Papaya and related species". Retrieved 20 July 2009.
2. ↑ "Papaya fruit facts". California Rare Fruit Growers. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2006.
3. ↑ Aradhya M.K. et al 1999. A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Carica L. (Caricaceae) based on restriction fragment length variation in a cpDNA intergenic spacer region. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 46: 579–586.
4. ↑ Van Droogenbroeck B. et al 2002. AFLP analysis of genetic relationships among papaya and its wild relatives (Caricaceae) from Ecuador. Theoret. Appl. Genet. 105: 289–297.