There are two kinds of papaya:

The papaya native to China is a plant of the genus Papaya in the Rosaceae family of the order Rosaceae. It is generally used as a traditional Chinese medicine.

The other kind is papaya. It is a plant of the genus Papaya in the family Papilionaceae. It is generally used as a fruit.

Rosaceae papaya plant 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 covered with pilose, glandular-toothed; fruit long ellipsoid, 10-15 cm long, dark yellow, woody, aromatic, with short fruiting pedicels. The fruit is long ellipsoid, 10-15 cm long, dark yellow, woody, fragrant, with short pedicels.

Produced in Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan (Tongbai), Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi.

Habitually cultivated for ornamental purposes, the fruit is astringent, boiled in water or impregnated with sugar for food, and used in medicine to relieve alcohol, remove phlegm, smooth the flow of qi, and stop dysentery. Fruit skin is still smooth after drying, not wrinkled, so there are light skin papaya called. The wood is hard and can be used as a bedpost.

Papaya family papaya plants papaya, also known as papaya, milky melon, marigold, for the tropical, subtropical evergreen soft woody small trees, up to 8-10 meters high, with milky sap; stems are not branched or sometimes branched at the injury, with a spiral arrangement of stipular scars. The fruit grows on the tree, the shape like a melon, so the name of the papaya. The latex of papaya is the main ingredient in the preparation of ground meat. The flowering and fruiting period is throughout the year.

Sour and spicy papaya silk (refers to the papaya, the same below), is a gourmet food, good taste, easy to make, the main material green papaya half (weighing about 300 grams), carrots, 50 grams of lettuce, lettuce, appropriate amount of ingredients to be garlic, sesame oil, vinegar, chili oil, chicken essence, each in appropriate quantities.

Raw materials: green papaya half (weighing about 300 grams), 50 grams of carrots, lettuce appropriate amount.

Applications: garlic, sesame oil, vinegar, chili oil, chicken essence, each appropriate amount.

Methods:

1, cut the green papaya, peel the skin, dig out the flesh and seeds, wash and cut into thin julienne strips, soak in ice water for 20 minutes, then fish out and drain;

2, carrots washed and cut into julienne strips, lettuce washed and cut into julienne strips, garlic chopped into minced pieces;

3, the processed green papaya, carrots, lettuce into a large bowl, add the appropriate amount of salt, chicken essence