Papaya and milk melon are not the same plant.

The difference between papaya and milk melon:

I, belongs to a different species.

Papaya for the Rosaceae papaya genus. Milk melon, that is, the end of the melon, is the family Rosaceae gooseberry vine plants.

Second, different appearance.

Papaya is a shrub or small tree, up to 5-10 meters high, leaf blade elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, sparsely obovate, 5-8 centimeters long, 3.5-5.5 centimeters wide, petiole 5-10 millimeters long, slightly pilose, glandular teeth; Fruits oblong-ellipsoid, 10-15 cm long, dark yellow, woody, aromatic flavor, short fruiting pedicels.

The milk melon is an erect half-shrub; the underground stem is uniaxial and transverse; the stem is much branched from the base. Leaves opposite or subopposite, linear. Umbellate cymes axillary; calyx outside pilose. Follicles fusiform, apex acuminate; seeds flattened, dark brown, 8 mm long; seed hairs white silky.

Three, different places of origin.

The papaya is produced in Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan (Tongbai), Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Milkmelon is distributed in China, North Korea, Mongolia and Russia; in China it is distributed in the provinces and districts of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang and Jiangsu. It grows on mountain slopes, sand dunes, or arid valleys, wastelands, and field margins 200-2000 meters above sea level.

Four, the role of different

Papaya grams cultivated for ornamental, astringent fruit, boiled or impregnated with sugar solution for food, medicine has a decoction, phlegm, smooth, dysentery effect. Fruit skin is still smooth after drying, not wrinkled, so there is light skin papaya called. The wood is hard and can be used as a bedpost.

Milk melon whole plant contains rubber 1.5%, 3.6% resin, can be used as industrial raw materials; young fruit is edible; seed hair can be used as filler. The whole herb is used as medicine for sore throat, deficiency of qi and yin, fatigue and forgetfulness, thirst, dizziness and insomnia, postpartum weakness, and milk deficiency. Can be used as a barren slope, wasteland management of the first vegetation has not yet been restored or trees and shrubs do not have a certain degree of depression when the first community.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Papaya (Papaya spp. of Rosaceae) Baidu Encyclopedia - Papaya (Gentianaceae)

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