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Carica papaya

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This is a perennial, herbaceous plant of the CARICACEAE family, with copious milky latex reaching to as high as 10 meters. The stem is about 25 cm thick, simple or branched above the middle and roughened with leaf scars. Leaves, clustered around the apex of the stem and branches, have nearly cylindrical stalks, 25 to 100 cm long; the leaf blade has 7 to 11 main lobes and some secondary irregular pointed lobes and prominent veins; leaf surface is yellow-green to dark-green above and paler beneath. Usually male and female flowers are borne on separate plants, but hermaphrodite flowers often occur, and a male plant may convert to a female after being beheaded. Flowers emerge singly or in clusters from the main stem among the lower leaves, the female short-stalked, the male with drooping peduncles 25 to 100 cm long.

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