Papaya saplings

Low harmonous palmoobrazny tree with the thin, deprived of branches trunk 5 — 10 meters high .

Leaves are big, 50 — 70 centimeters in the diameter, palchato-rassechyonny, on long scapes.

Flowers develop in bosoms of leaves, turning into big fruits , with a diameter of 10 — 30 cm and 15 — 45 cm long. The ripened fruits soft also have color from amber to yellow.

All parts of a plant contain lacteal ^{juice [2]} .

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The homeland of a papaya is the South of Mexico , Central America and the North of South America , but is grown up it in all tropical countries now. Also experimental landings of a papaya are available also in the south of Russia, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus . ^[3]

The main application of a papaya — use in food. Usually it is eaten in the raw, without thin skin and seeds. Unripe fruits extinguish, and also use at preparation of a curry and in salads. Fruits bake on fire from what from a papaya the bread smell begins to proceed, one of names from here — a breadfruit tree.

The papaya contains a lot of enzyme , called papainase ( the protease softening meat) and other proteins. Property of juice of a papaya to destroy rigid fibers of meat was used in South America during thousands of years.

From the purified lacteal juice of unripe fruits and leaves receive the papainase applied to digestion improvement and the preparations "Lekozim" and "Kariopazin" (mix of proteolytic enzymes) which treat intervertebral osteochondrosis

Care should be shown when collecting fruits as the papaya lets out the juice-latex capable to cause in many people irritation of skin, and also allergic reactions. Fruits of a papaya and its leaves also contain alkaloid karpain, possessing glistogonny action which in high doses can be dangerous.

Women in India, on Sri Lanka and in other parts of the world used a green unripe papaya as a folk remedy for contraception and abortion

According to the virologist Luke Montanye, preparations from a papaya promote prevention of viral infections.