Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:47:43 +0100, Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 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):
>>
>>> 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.
>> 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've had "paw paw" in Australia, but yes, in this country we would call
it papaya.
--Bob
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