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By Naomi Duguid
Published 2012
Native to Central America, the papaya (Carica papaya) is now widely grown in subtropical Asia. In Burmese, itโs thimbaw. Papaya fruit grows in clumps at the top of spindly-looking trees that mature very quickly and produce fruit year-round. The fruits are long and slightly bulbous, green skinned and hard when unripe, with pale green flesh. They ripen and soften to yellow- or orange-colored skin with yellow to almost-red flesh. The skin is fine and supple and inedible; the seeds are black and are an old remedy against intestinal worms.
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