Carica papaya L.

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DEPAUW UNIVI
HERBARIUM.
Carica Papaya Linnaeus, Spec, Plant., 1036, 1753.
Mostly unbranched, treelike plant up to 4 or more m. tall, with thick, soft-wooded
stems and copious milky latex, heaves clustered near the top, large, round in outline,
deeply palmately 7 or 9 lobed, the lobes in turn acuminately toothed and lobed, petioles
long. Flowers polygamous-dioecious, white or cream-colored, fragrant. Female flowers
sessile, axillary. Male flowers smaller, in loose paniculate clusters on long axillary pedun-
cles. Fruit green to yellow, of various shapes but mostly subglobose to long ovoid, up to 20
or more cm. long, flesh red-orange, 3 or more cm. thick, central cavity lined with numerous
small, round, black geeds.
Common about dwellings, in thickets and along roadsides throughout Hut
island (9810). The fleshy fruit is edible and is much relished both raw and
cooked and is also fed to chickens and hogs. English name, papaya; native
name, loku. Short fruited varieties are known as loku fua ku and those with
long fruit as loku fua leleva or loku fua magaia.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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ARDêH,
presented to DPU Herbarium^
by T. ft. Yuncker
* University
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DEPAUW UNIV.
HERBARIUM.
HERBARIUM
T. G. YUNCKER
Flora of Niue Island
Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Museum
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darica papaya L.
Tree 3 i, tall. In thicket near
Alofi. 65 m. alt. Jan. 22, 1940.
*loku*
Coll. T. G. Yuncker
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