When some gardeners think about how to successfully grow a papaya tree, their approach might be to drown the trees in pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Luckily, there's another way to help your ...

Growing papaya at home is simple and rewarding, requiring sunlight, the right pot, and basic care for fresh fruit.

Papaya fruit tree was growing in 62 days from seeds to young plant in this time lapse. Seeds were extracted from ripen papaya ...

In the heart of the Wilshire Park historic district, Horacio Fuentes has built a garden with the feel of his native El Salvador. It begins by the sidewalk, where a pito coral tree grows, planted 15 ...

PHILADELPHIA — Temple University horticulturist Benjamin Snyder is something of a Dr. Frankenstein. For years, the greenhouse manager of Temple's Ambler campus has experimented with growing fruits and ...

My papaya tree appears to have been killed by the recent freezes. I grew it from a seed from Hawaii. It was 2 years old and 6 feet tall and had 12 papayas on it. I grew it in a pot the first year and ...

The papaya plant carries the youngest Y chromosome ever found, reports a research team. That sex chromosome is so new evolutionarily that it doesn’t have the stripped-down style of full-fledged Y ...

The versatile Papaya has many uses. The ripe fruit is eaten raw, without skin or seeds, the unripe green fruit can be cooked in curries and stews. A small piece of raw Papaya, cooked along with meat, ...

When you visit the local markets anywhere along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, you will find an abundance of fruit from all over the tropics. Most except the banana have been grown for hundreds and ...