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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Carica papaya L.
Papaya

Carica papaya
Copyright by: George D. Gann

Family: Caricaceae

Group: Dicot

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Shrub

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Undetermined Nativity

Native Range: Southern Mexico, Central America, South America and perhaps the West Indies and Florida; widely cultivated and naturalized and its origins obscured.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

Comments: For more images from Eleuthera, visit the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve website.

Other data on Carica papaya available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Carica papaya has been reported for the following habitat in Bahama Archipelago :
Coppice

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Carica papaya
Copyright by: George D. Gann
Carica papaya
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer
Male plant
Carica papaya
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer
Female plant
Carica papaya
Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley
Carica papaya
Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley