On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 13:19:11 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx
> wrote:

>Bruce > wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:53:48 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> We have a papaya tree in one of our yards. For the life of me, I have yet
>>> to figure out why people like it. Smells like vomit to me.
>>
>> Yes, that's what i just posted about! Our papayas smell and taste
>> faintly like vomit. But equally ripe papayas from another papaya tree
>> are quite nice, a bit like calmed down mangos. There must be different
>> strains. I guess this is where the Latin names come in. Papaya
>> Variegata "Mrs. Jones backyard".
>>
>Ours grew wild, so I have no idea about different strains. I was
>surprised how fast it grew from seed and was able to bear fruit. On my
>bucket list for this year is to plant a few more fruit trees, preferably
>exotic, but I have to decide what exactly those will be. We also currently
>have a couple banana trees and pineapple bushes, and the neighbor has
>avocado and lime trees that grow over the fence and produce prolifically so
>no need for those.

You must live in the subtropics, like us. Banana's popular here, but
there's a restriction to do with a banana plant disease. Not sure. We
have 1 or more of lychee, custard apple, persimmon, loquat, avocado,
lime, lemon, orange, mandarin, lemonade, macadamia, olive, jaboticaba.

They don't all produce yet, though. I've been pampering the lychee
tree because it wasn't going anywhere without help. It's now trying to
produce 1 lychee