Monographs Details:
Authority:

Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:

Caricaceae
Scientific Name:

Carica
Description:

Genus Description - Small trees with palmate, entire, or palmately compound leaves, without stipules, polygamous, dioecious or rarely monoecious. Male flowers on long, panicle-like cymes; female flowers on short, few-flowered cymes. Other characters typical of the family.

Distribution:

México Mexico North America| Argentina South America|