Tree Details

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Botanical Name	Carica papaya L.
Family Name	Caricaceae
Common Name	papaya
Tamil Name	பப்பாளி
Life Form	Tree
Distribution	Tropical regions of the world
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Tree, up to 8 m tall. Leaves: Crowed, palmately lobed, Peltate, 35 - 50, cordate at base, several lobes at margin, acute at apex, glabrous; palmately many nerved; petiole up to 60 cm long. Panicles terminal. Flower: Male flowers cluster, sessile. Flowers ca. 2 cm across, pale yellow. Calyx 5-lobed, small. Corolla salverform, 5-lobed, lobe twisted, 01 cm long. Stamens 10, two whorld; filament slender, anther sessile. Female flowers, 2 - 4-floral bud in leaf axial, solitary axillary. Flowers pale yellow; bracts fleashy, caducous. Calyx 5lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, lanceolate. Ovary globose; 1loculed; ovules many; style slender; stigma 5-lobed. Fruit: Berries pyriform, Seed: Seeds ovoid, blackish, wrinkled.
Flowering and Fruiting	Almost the throughout the year.
Key Compounds	Carotenoids, polyphenols, benzyl isothiocyanates, benzyl glucosinates and prunasin.
Medicinal Use	Anti-aging, Improves and preserves good vision, Constipation and dyspepsia, Menstruation and pregnancy, Abortificient, Dengue fever.
At the Campus	Front of B.Ed college