EditorialWorld: The papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae.
EditorialBigflower pawpaw tree, Asimina obovata, native to America. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's "Herbier General de l'Amateur," Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was ...
EditorialGuava tree, Psidium guajava 1, Brazilian pawpaw, Annona muricata 2, and sapodilla, Manilkara zapota 3, with fruit, flower and leaf. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Henriette Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Pic...
EditorialAlkebu-Lan Marcus, right, tends to more than a dozen pawpaw trees at a new orchard in Philadelphia, on Sept. 25, 2020. (John Taggart/The New York Times)
EditorialPapaya or pawpaw tree with fruit and cross section of fruit. Papayer comestible, Carica papaya. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Nat...
EditorialGuava tree, Psidium guajava 1, Brazilian pawpaw, Annona muricata 2, and sapodilla, Manilkara zapota 3, with fruit, flower and leaf. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Henriette Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Pic...
EditorialFig sphinx moth, Pachylia ficus 1, huckleberry sphinx, Paonias astylus 2, and pawpaw sphinx, Dolba hyloeus 3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.
EditorialBigflower pawpaw tree, Asimina obovata, native to America. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's "Herbier General de l'Amateur," Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was ...