Gerald McCormack, CINHT,
Solo variety (hermaphrodite) and fruit – Cook Islands, Rarotonga – Gerald McCormack
The pawpaw (Carica papaya) is a popular and delicious breakfast fruit. It is sliced and the hundred loose black seeds are easily scraped out to leave the firm orange-yellow or pink flesh, which is eaten raw with or without a squirt of fresh lime juice. These now popular fruits are various lines of the Solo Variety, developed in the early 1960s by the late Professor Ngakasone at the University of Hawai’i.
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