Native to Central and South America but grown throughout many tropical regions, papayas are a beloved plant. You can even grow them in your own backyard, so you'll have sweet, delicious fruit right at ...

Move over banana trees. Papaya trees have arrived. Susan Thompson is the proud owner of more than 100 papaya trees, some almost eight-feet-tall, in her yard in Germantown. She didn’t intentionally ...

PHILADELPHIA — Temple University horticulturist Benjamin Snyder is something of a Dr. Frankenstein. For years, the greenhouse manager of Temple's Ambler campus has experimented with growing fruits and ...

In the heart of the Wilshire Park historic district, Horacio Fuentes has built a garden with the feel of his native El Salvador. It begins by the sidewalk, where a pito coral tree grows, planted 15 ...

My papaya tree appears to have been killed by the recent freezes. I grew it from a seed from Hawaii. It was 2 years old and 6 feet tall and had 12 papayas on it. I grew it in a pot the first year and ...