Wrinkled skin papaya.

Belongs to the Rosaceae family of plants, the fruit can be used as medicine, there are soothing and activating with the function of stomach and dampness. The Chinese Pharmacopoeia recorded Changyang "Zichu wrinkled skin papaya" is a wild medicinal papaya, has a unique medicinal and health care value, "the fruit of the hundred benefits" reputation. Wrinkled skin papaya is also a unique solitary ornamental tree. Dense branches with many thorns can be used as green ogonori.

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Deciduous shrub, up to 2 meters high, branches erect, spiny; branchlets terete, slightly flexuous, glabrous, purple-brown or black-brown, with sparsely light-brown lenticels; winter buds triangular-ovate, apex acute, nearly glabrous or pubescent at the edges of the scales, purple-brown. purple-brown.

Leaf blade ovate to elliptic, sparsely long elliptic, 3-9 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, apex acute to sparsely rounded, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margins sharply serrate, apices of teeth spreading, glabrous or pubescent on sprouts along lower leaf veins; petiole ca. 1 cm; stipules large, herbaceous, reniform or semiorbicular, sparsely ovate, 5-10 mm long, 12-20 mm wide. margin acutely biserrate, glabrous.

Flowers open before leaves, in clusters of 3-5 on old biennial branches; pedicels short and thick, ca. 3 mm or nearly sessile; flowers 3-5 cm in diam. 4-5 mm wide, about half as long as the calyx tube, apex rounded, entire or with undulate teeth, and yellow-brown lashes; petals obovate or suborbicular, base extended into a short claw.