The scientific name of medicinal papaya is called Iron Foot Pear.

It is produced in Xuancheng, Anhui Province, the wild fruit, so it is called Xuan papaya, and usually eat papaya, that is, fruit store papaya, because it is produced in tropical America, is imported, our country since ancient times will be used to foreign countries called Fandi, Fambang, so it is called Fambang papaya, Xuan papaya and Fambang papaya species of the original plant is completely different, so its flavor, efficacy is not the same, it should be distinguished.

Xuan papaya for wrinkled skin papaya (stick peduncle begonia), belongs to the Rosaceae plant. Rohan umbilical cord: fruit long obovate, fruit body densely white dots, umbilical cord protruding, dry products wrinkled skin. Apple red: fruit flat barrel-shaped, sunny side carmine red when the fruit is ripe, fragrant, dry products wrinkled skin. Sesame point: fruit obovate, fruit body densely white dots, umbilicus slightly protruding, dry products wrinkled skin.

Chinese medicine papaya and fruit papaya different:

1, Chinese medicine papaya is papaya ripe, placed in boiling water until the outer skin gray-white chain repentance dust, half longitudinal dissection, sun-dried from. And fruit shed Zen papaya can be eaten after maturity, Chinese medicine papaya and fruit before and papaya plant family, origin and growth environment is different, the two tastes, medicinal properties, attribution, efficacy of use is also different.

2, the Chinese medicine papaya for the Rosaceae, papaya genus, is a deciduous shrub plant stick peduncle begonia dry mature fruit. And fruit papaya for papaya family, papaya genus. Chinese medicine papaya produced in China's Anhui, Shandong, Hubei, Guizhou, Tibet and other places, suitable for growth in the subtropical warm and humid mountainous areas. Fruit papaya is native to Mexico and the central region of the Americas, China is mainly produced in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian, Taiwan, etc., suitable for growth in warm areas.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Medicine Papaya