return to: checklist; keys; family Caricaceae
Tree
with soft pithy trunks; bark smooth, with weak horizontal ridges
(remnant leaf scars?); leaves alternate, palmately compound; leaflets
elliptic, base acute, margin entire, apex acuminate; male and
female flowers on separate trees (dioecious); fruits large, pendulous,
with an acute apex, truncate base and 5 longitudinal ridges.
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