Papaya can be juiced with many fruits, but also with milk, papaya milk is papaya and milk as the main ingredients of the beauty food, easy to make, rich in papaya enzymes and vitamin A, with anti-aging and beauty, liver and stomach, soothing and activating the effect of Luo. In addition, papaya can also be stewed clams, papaya stewed clams is a delicious traditional dishes, belongs to the Cantonese cuisine. With papaya and clams as the main ingredients, it is a Cantonese dessert, moisturizing and nourishing, rich in nutritional value. The main ingredients are papaya, clam oil, fresh milk and water.

Papaya: papaya genus Rosaceae, shrubs or small trees, up to 5-10 meters, leaf blade elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, sparsely obovate, 5-8 centimeters long, 3.5-5.5 centimeters wide, petiole 5-10 millimeters long, puberulent Petiole 5-10 mm long, puberulent, glandular-toothed; fruit long ellipsoid, 10-15 cm long, dull yellow, woody, aromatic, fruiting pedicel short. Fl. April, fr. Sept-Oct.

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Papaya growing environment and distribution range

Growing environment

Soil

The soil is not strict requirements. However, it grows better in deep, loose and fertile sandy soil with good drainage, and should not be planted in low-lying waterlogged places.

Moisture

Prefer half-dry and half-wet. Slightly dry before and after the flowering period. If the soil is too wet, the flowering period will be short. After seeing the fruit like moisture. If the soil is dry, the fruit is shriveled, it is easy to drop fruit. The soil is slightly dry when the fruit is close to ripening. Fruit ripening soil is too wet, then fruit drop.

Light

Intolerant of shade, the planting place can be chosen to avoid the wind to the sun.

Temperature

Prefer warm environment, in the Jianghuai Valley can be open overwintering.

Distribution range

Chinese papaya cultivation areas in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan, Taiwan and other places.

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