You need to stop playing with your 'puter once in a while and get out into
the real world and look at
the actual plants first hand.

True enough. I haven't seen a real papaya in 20 years. I was trying to tell
from the pictures.

A woody trunk makes arborescent palms trees.

That's what I thought.

Who said bonsai weren't trees?

Pieter, but I set him straight. There are a great many misconceptions about
bonsai. They aren't tortured either. In order to be successful, a bonsai has to
be very healthy.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)