Carica papayaL.

Papaya

WFO wfo-0000588009 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Carica papaya, photographed by Chris Merck
fig. a Chris Merck, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-15 / obs. 197953739
Carica papaya, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. b Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195423257
Carica papaya, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. c Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167488724
Carica papaya, photographed by Maria Janeiro
fig. d Maria Janeiro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192861847
Carica papaya, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. e Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182476370
Carica papaya, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173806448
Carica papaya, photographed by Prasanta Hembram
fig. g Prasanta Hembram, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184010191

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Flowering n = 615 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 615 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 39 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Carica citriformis Jacq.
  • Carica citriformis Hook.f.
  • Carica citriformis J.Jacq. ex Spreng.
  • Carica cubensis Solms
  • Carica hermaphrodita Blanco
  • Carica jamaicensis Urb.
  • Carica jimenezii Bertoni
  • Carica mamaya Vell.
  • Carica papaya f. correae Solms
  • Carica papaya f. ernstii Solms
  • Carica papaya f. mamaya (Vell.) Stellfeld
  • Carica papaya f. portoricensis (Urb.) Solms
  • Carica papaya var. bady Aké Assi
  • Carica papaya var. jimenezii Bertoni
  • Carica peltata Hook. & Arn.
  • Carica pinnatifida Heilborn
  • Carica portoricensis Urb.
  • Carica posoposa L.
  • Carica pyriformis Willd.
  • Carica rochefortii Solms
  • Carica sativa Tussac
  • Papaya carica Gaertn.
  • Papaya cimarrona Sint. ex Kuntze
  • Papaya citriformis (J.Jacq. ex Spreng.) A.DC.

and 15 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.