Male Papaya Plant in Fruit

Unusual plant.
I can see the fruit hanging down.

Delonix, this is the first time I'm ever seeing hanging papayas!! Interesting.

It's a first for me too...it is very unusual for a male papaya plant to produce fruit. I know this papaya plant produces fruit every year. I've read in the rarest occasion males flowers produce fruit. I wanted to attempt to buy some seeds from the owner, however, they didn't speak English and weren't very friendly.

These people have an incredible orchard though, growing many varieties of Bananas, Tropical Guavas, Citrus and Sugar Cane, Cherimoya, Mango, Strawberry Guava, and many other exotic plants.

It's amazing how hardworking these farmers are to be able to maintain an orchard the size you just mentioned. A pity too they don't speak English.

Panther,

I'm not sure if they're farmers, however, they have about a 2 acre lot with many trees and plants. It would definitely be a lot of work to maintain it.

Well if they aren't farmers they definately are growers Delonix...LOL

Panther,

You are correct, they are growers LOL.