Mountain pawpaw
Vasconcellea pubescens A.DC.
- light
- —
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 7.5 m
- wide
- —
Caricaceae
Formerly Carica candamarcensis, Carica cestriflora, Carica chiriquensis, Carica cundinamarcensis, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Panama to Venezuela and BoliviaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 5.0 m to 10 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Wikipedia page does not state medium: it says well-drained soil, established plants tolerate dry spells, young ones do not
- Coldest it survives
- 2 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Spanish
- Papayuela, chamburo, chuhualcán, toronche, jigacho, siglalón, chamburo, chihualcán, toronche, jigacho, siglalón
- Indonesian
- Carica, Pepaya gunung
- French
- Papayer des montagnes
- Finnish
- vuorimito
- Slovak
- papájovec páperistý
- Chinese (China)
- 山徒木瓜
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Vasconcellea pubescens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.