Papaya
Carica papaya L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.8 m
- wide
- 1.8 m
Caricaceae
Formerly Carica citriformis, Carica cubensis, Carica hermaphrodita, Carica jamaicensis, and 20 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Mexico to VenezuelaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 4.6 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.1 mRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -2 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Slovenian
- papaja
- Simplified Chinese
- 木瓜, 番瓜, 万寿果
- Asturian
- papayal
- Chinese
- 番木瓜, 番木瓜叶
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Extension, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Carica papaya (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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