i am interested in contacting some group member that lives and plants in israel. reason: have been told that israel does use a strain and or a process through which their papaya trees start producing at 4-5 feet tall rather than the 7-8 feet of regular papaya trees in the u.s. is anybody in the group familiar with this???? gloria
Consider the Babaco papaya, Carica pentagona. Grown in Israel, commercially in greenhouses, it is a smaller specimen than Carica papaya which grows 10-12' tall. Also known as the Mountain papaya, babacos are native to Ecuador and prefer slightly cooler temperatures than their Mexican and Hawaiin cousins. Significantly, the fruit is five-sided, yellow and quite a bit tangier than the tropical papaya. Hope this helps,
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