Just about everybody loves fruit, and most people love nuts. A palm like tree that bears the papaya fruit whose enzyme is able to digest 35 times its weight in lean meat. Excellent source of vitamin A and B. Trees grow 20 to 25 feet tall. A hardy papaya from the mountains of Columbia and Equador that will stand cold and disease better than Golden Papaya.
Fruit is small and is edible when cooked.
A beautiful evergreen tree with delicate foliage that folds up at night. Easily grown indoors in bright light. Tree grows to 10m in cultivation. Tolerates heat, wind, alkaline soil and urban pollution well. A small hardy tree with the nuts enclosed in a husk.