Papaya fruit, tender stems and leaves, tendrils and underground roots can all be eaten as vegetables, which is a veritable pollution-free vegetable. Huge stems and vines can be used as feed; Guateng can be used as a source of strong fiber and used to process ropes.
The fruit contains high zinc content, which has obvious curative effect on children's intellectual development, male and female infertility, especially the decline of male sexual function, and can alleviate the vision decline of the elderly.
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Bergamot is a perennial herb vine with thick roots and climbing or artificial stems and ditches. Petiole slender, hairless, 5~ 15 cm long; Leaf blade is membranous, suborbicular, with larger middle lobe, smaller side lobes, tapering apex and denticulate edges.
The base is heart-shaped, deeply curved and nearly round, with a depth of 1 ~ 3cm and a width of1~ 2 cm; Dark green above, slightly rough, light green on the back, pubescent, dense veins.
Tendrils thick, wrinkled, glabrous, 3-5 forked. Monoecious. Male flowers 10~30 peanuts grow 8~30 cm long on the total pedicel to form a raceme, the inflorescence axis is slightly stout and hairless, and the pedicel is 1~6 mm long;
Calyx tube is short, lobes spreading, nearly hairless, 5~7 mm long and 1~ 1.5 mm wide; Corolla radial,12 ~17mm wide, totally divided at base, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 5-veined; Stamens 3, filaments connate, anthers separate, anthers inflexed.
The female flower is solitary, and the pedicel length is 1~ 1.5 cm; Corolla and calyx are male flowers; Ovary obovate, with 5 edges, sparse hairs, 1 cell, 1 pendulous ovule, style 2 ~ 3 mm long, stigma 2 mm wide.
The fruit is light green, obovate, with sparse bristles, 8~ 12 cm in length and 6~8 cm in diameter, with 5 longitudinal grooves on the upper part and seeds 1 grain. The seeds are large, long 10 cm, wide 7 cm, oval and oblate. The flowering period is July-September, and the fruiting period is 8-65438+1October.
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