"gloria" wrote in message
ups.com...
i am interested in contacting some group member that lives and
plants
in israel. reason: have been told that israel does use a strain
and or
a process through which their papaya trees start producing at
4-5 feet
tall rather than the 7-8 feet of regular papaya trees in the
u.s. is
anybody in the group familiar with this????
gloria

Consider the Babaco papaya, Carica pentagona. Grown in Israel,
commercially in greenhouses, it is a smaller specimen than Carica
papaya which grows 10-12' tall. Also known as the Mountain papaya,
babacos are native to Ecuador and prefer slightly cooler
temperatures than their Mexican and Hawaiin cousins.
Significantly, the fruit is five-sided, yellow and quite a bit
tangier than the tropical papaya. Hope this helps,
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elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA
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