Belongs to the genus Papaya in the family 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, slightly pilose, glandular teeth; fruit long ellipsoidal, 10-15 centimeters long, dark yellow, woody, aromatic flavor, short fruit peduncle. Flowering in April, fruiting in September-October.

Produced in Shandong, Shaanxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi.

The fruit is astringent, boiled or impregnated with sugar solution 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 it is known as light skin papaya. The wood is hard and can be used as a bedpost.

Another species native to South America, "papaya" was introduced to China in the seventeenth century, and now has become a popular fruit, often referred to as "papaya" (see the entry "papaya"), only the traditional Chinese "papaya" is expressed here.