Carica
Carica is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caricaceae including "C. papaya," the papaya (syn. "C. peltata", "C. posoposa"), a widely cultivated fruit tree native to the American tropics.

The genus was formerly treated as including about 20-25 species of short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small trees growing to 5–10 m tall, native to tropical Central and South America, but recent genetic evidence has resulted in all of these species other than "C. papaya" being reclassified into three other genera.
Q25314
flowering plant
Concept
Q156673
Caricaceae
Concept
Q34887
C. papaya
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Q217151
American tropics
Concept
Q190489
evergreen
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Q3360060
pachycaul
UNK
Q42295
shrub
Concept
Q10884
tree
Concept
Q42530
tropical
LOC
Q27611
Central
LOC
Q18
South
LOC
Q34740
genera
Concept
Q1752510
Carica
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20
NUMBER
-25^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-25
NUMBER
+5^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
5
NUMBER
+10^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
10
NUMBER
parent taxon
taxonomic type
taxon rank
taxonomic type
parent taxon