Boron Elgar wrote, in <t1iuv3d67n3qr6a33cq31256b46ikqu3kh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:16:05 -0400:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:47:43 +0100, Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >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 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.
I think you are right. The fruit looks very similar nevertheless.
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Nick Spalding
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