On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:47:43 +0100, Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Dana wrote, in
><530ab2c5-7eaf-4505-b1ba-01b2950bf345@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:39:38 -0700 (PDT):
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>> Has anyone here had paw paws? I'm considering adding some paw paw
>> trees to my woods. They're supposed to do well hereabouts, and
>> there's at least some evidence that that whole family of fruits --
>> cherimoyas and the like -- have anticancer properties. I've heard
>> they're exceedingly tasty, but have never even seen one to notice it.
>> Anyone here tried a paw paw? What did you think?
>>
>> I've been working on gardening in general; it strikes me that with all
>> this land I might as well be producing much of my own food. Put in
>> strawberries last weekend, and I've been building lasagna beds out
>> back. Want to buy some fruit and nut trees, too.
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>I haven't had any since I was in Borneo in 1954 but it was part of my
>daily breakfast then. Very tasty.
I am betting that is not the same fruit Dana is talking about. There
is one called the tropical papaya, Carica papaya, that is more likely
what you had.
Boron
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