Re: Pawpaw means two plants in different families?

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• To: l*@ctv.es, <m*@ucdavis.edu>
• Subject: Re: Pawpaw means two plants in different families?
• From: h*@ccnet.com@mail.ccnet.com (Jerry Heverly)
• Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 23:10:41 -0800

Fie on common names!!
Jerry Heverly, Oakland, CA





At 16:13 6/22/97, Hugo Latymer wrote:
>Have we not a tangled thread here? I believe there are
> two Pawpaws.
>        1) Carica papaya L. a tropical pithy tree of
>single trunk that looks a bit like a palm tree. Originally
>from Central America, spread by the Conquistadores
>throughout the Carribean and thence world-wide in the
>Tropics. The melon-like fruits are delicious, and usually
>eaten with sugar and a squeeze of limejuice. By
>slitting the young fruits a milky sap exudes that
>contains an enzyme, papain, that will digest meat.
>I have seen the fingers of natives in Uganda who have
>been collecting this substance eaten away to the bone.
>        2) Asimina  triloba Adans. is a deciduous small
>tree to 10m. Zone 5. from eastern North America.
>Clones selected for fruit are 'Davis' 'Overleese', 'Sunflower.
>                Hugo Latymer      latymer@ctv.es

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