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Cultivation of Papaw and Production of Papain
(1943/1944) Sanders, F.R.
Papain is a product obtained from the pawpaw or papaya (Carica papaya L). Ceylon and adjacent countries are the most important producers of papain, although some is produced in the West Indies, particularly in Jamaica and Trinidad, while in recent years the production of this article has been taken up in Tanganyika, chiefly in the Northern Province. Much of the production from the West Indies was shipped to the United States, which in prewar years also imported considerable quantities from Japan (26,000 lb. in 1939). The bulk of the papain produced in Ceylon is marketed in Europe.
The Papaw or Papaya
(1948) Greenway, P. J.; Amani
The genus Carica, to which the papaw or papaya C. papaya L. belongs, contains some twenty-two species, all of which are found in the warmer parts of America. Originally it was included by botanists in the families Passifloracere and Cucurbitacere, but it was transferred by the German botanist, H. Grafzu Solms, to the family Caricacere; he found the family name on that of the generic name Carica. Besides Carica the family contains the genera Jaracatia found in America, and Cylicomorpha in Africa.