The mountain pawpaw (Carica candamarcensis)

Abstract

As many people do not know this easily grown fruit and some who know it do not know how to use it, the following note may be of use in making it popular. It should be borne in mind that it is a fruit which should be cooked. A case is known to the writer where trees in bearing have been rooted out because their owner disliked the fruits. He had tried eating them raw; later, eating the cooked fruits, he regretted not having learnt how they should be prepared.