About This Plant
The seeds of this rare carica are still in the fruit, and I’ll extract them to ship them fresh and moist-packed. Please sow immediately warm.
How does Papaya de montaña Taste Like?
Papaya de montaña is a rare relative of the common papaya. The tree looks great and is very decorative, but if you want fruit to eat, don’t buy these seeds; you will be disappointed! The fruit smell incredibley yummy and they look very enticing, but the flesh is very thin and does not taste great. There is a sweet pulp between the biggish seeds, which is not enough to be worthwhile as a snack and clings tenaciously to the seeds.
The fruit is commonly described as: The fruit is not eaten raw. However, the pulp of papaya d montana fruits is used by local people for making candy, jams, cakes, and salted preparations. Sherbets are also made from the pulp. If anyone can tell me how I could make anything out of this fruit, I would be very grateful to know!
Breeding potential
Besides looking pretty, I believe that Vasconella cauliflora has a lot of potential for breeding. Not only did it survive for five years in an infertile, hard clay soil, which was waterlogged for months, but it is also much more cold-hardy than the common papaya. Reports say that it may be frost-hardy up to -4 C.
How to Germinate the Seeds:
Sow immediately warm, the best germination temperature is 22-30 °C. If you live in a cooler region, you will probably need a heat mat. In lower temperatures, the germination will be slower and more irregular, and probably will fail altogether below 20 °C.
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