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Raw green papaya

I removed the statement that papaya is not eaten raw. The source contains a correction in parentheses mentioning it is eaten raw in Vietnam and Thailand. I can provide citations to Thai cookbooks if needed.Hamster Drink (talk) 01:46, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ripe fruit use

I know its just a fruit, like any other, when ripe, but from the uses section, it would seem like all use of the fruit is in its green, unripe form. thats unbalanced. a sourced sentence about how its eaten ripe, and where, and popularity (or lack thereof). in california, the overwhelming examples in market are rpie or nearly ripe, much rarer to see green papaya labelled as such.50.193.19.66 (talk) 17:09, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Opening image

I suggest getting rid of the opening image of the article as it is dated to the 19th century, and added in 2005, since unchanged. It also isn't a picture, unlike the opening image of other fruits, vegetables, etc. I'd personally recommend a similar image featuring the papaya fruit, the tree and the flower in the wild, as well as being a picture uploaded to wikipedia commons (if necessary) and/or in the public domain. Thanks in advance. Usernamejustbecause (talk) 19:01, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Checking Wikimedia Commons, the article displays many of the best pictures of various papaya characteristics - the tree, flowers, leaves, fruit, seeds - and among fruits, has more images than most. The image used in the infobox, despite being a drawing, is the only one combining several features in one display. It seems suitable to me. Zefr (talk) 03:03, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of "PawPaw" reference - clearification

I had my edit reversed out.

"PawPaw" is in another fruit tree species entirely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba native to North America and the name based on the native people's language where it made a significant food source for them. Their range extends to the northern United States and as far south as Georgia and limited to the climate of the high mountain elevations.

The fruit of papaya might be loosely called that as a ubiquitous term for a soft like fruit but they're nothing alike and it should be be confused with one another.

There's no native georaphic overlap in the two species of plant as there is with linguistic differences between the peoples of those areas as papays are limited to the sea level southern portions of Flordia and were likely transported there by pre columbian trade

I suggest a change again to correct this error in language. Flip69 (talk) 20:38, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Although your analysis is correct, Morton explained that in some parts of the world, especially Australia and some islands of the West Indies, it is known as papaw, or pawpaw, names which are better limited to the very different, mainly wild Asimina triloba Dunal, belonging to the Annonaceae. and the Chavez ref says papaya spread to other West Indian islands, such as Jamaica, where it was known as pawpaw. We don't have a WP:RS source stating the regional name, pawpaw, does not apply any longer to papaya in Australia or the Caribbean. Zefr (talk) 22:47, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]