Papaya Production Guide
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Papaya is a luscious fruit that has been taken for granted. The total crop area in the Philippines planted to papaya amounts to only 8,720 hectares or 0.1 percent of our agricultural land. Yet no one can deny its tastiness as a dessert or as an indispensable vegetables dish of various recipes. Papaya fruits [...]
Medicinal Plant: Papaya – Melon Tree (Carica papaya)
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Botany Erect, usually branchless tree with a soft grayish trunk, marked with scars. Leaves, borne on the top are long-stalked, rounded and deeply lobed. Flowers, male in clusters, female are sessile. Fruit, obovoid, yellow-orange when ripe with numerous pellet-sized black seeds. Distribution Grown throughout the Philippines. Properties Antirheumatic, emmenagogue, anthelmintic. Constituents and properties • Considered [...]
