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Oct 14, 2016 10:19 AM CST
Name: KadieD
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Your papaya tree is definitely a hermaphrodite. Here's a photo of my hermaphrodite tree:
Thumb of 2016-06-25/Rainbow/d66d0d
Smallish flowers grow in clusters on the stem where the leaf is attached.

Here's a female papaya tree:

Only one or two large flowers grow from the leaf axils.

Here's a male papaya tree:

The small tubular-like flowers grow in clusters on long panicles extending from the stem.

http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc...
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