Spermatophyta: Dicotyledonae: Archichlamydeae: Brassicales

Caricaceae - Pawpaw family

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Kupicha, F.K. (1978) Caricaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4

Description of the family

Dioecious or monoecious soft-wooded small trees with milky latex. Trunks resembling palms. Leaves palmately-lobed, borne in a terminal crown. Petals and calyx 5-lobed. Stamens 10. Ovary superior, 1-locular. Fruit a berry.

Worldwide: 4 genera and 33 genera in tropical and warm America and tropical Africa

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 1 cultivated taxon.

Carica papaya

Links to cultivated genera:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this family

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Carica L.Description, Image

Other sources of information about Caricaceae:

Our websites:

Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Caricaceae
Flora of Malawi: Caricaceae
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Caricaceae
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Caricaceae

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Caricaceae
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Caricaceae
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Caricaceae
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Caricaceae
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Caricaceae
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Caricaceae
JSTOR Plant Science: Caricaceae
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Caricaceae
Wikipedia: Caricaceae
Plants of the World Online: Caricaceae
Tropicos: Caricaceae



Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: Family page: Caricaceae.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/family.php?family_id=250, retrieved 28 March 2024

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