🌿 Family

Caricaceae

8 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Brassicales › Caricaceae

Carica papaya L. (papaya) is a widely cultivated pantropical tropical fruit with specific cultivation, use, and toxicity traits.

Vasconcellea pubescens, or mountain papaya, is an edible fruit-bearing small tree with culinary, commercial, and potential medicinal uses.

Jacaratia mexicana is a tree species in Caricaceae found in tropical dry forests of Central America and southern Mexico.

Jacaratia spinosa is a deciduous spined tree with edible fruit and edible digestible wood eaten as an Argentinian delicacy.

Vasconcellea parviflora A.DC. is a polygamous shrub in the Caricaceae family native to parts of Ecuador and Peru.

Vasconcellea chilensis Planch. is a summer-deciduous 1–3 m tall shrub that produces ovoid brownish-green fruit with mucilage-covered oval seeds.

Vasconcellea candicans is a dioecious tree/shrub with edible fruit that is propagated by seed.

Vasconcellea quercifolia is a shrub or tree in the Caricaceae family found across parts of South America.

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