carica

That reference in the song is for a different fruit from genus Carica (Papaya).

For the unrelated tropical papaya fruit often called 'papaw' or 'pawpaw', see Carica papaya.

The varieties of Ficus carica can be classified in four groups if I remember correctly.

I think the tree I have is a ficus carica.

In Australia, "pawpaw" is a name for the yellow papaya, a variety of Carica papaya.

The Pawpaw/Carica papaya (called Papaya in North America), the Mountain Pawpaw/Vasconcellea pubescens, and the American Pawpaw/Asimina triloba (which this article is about).

Carica papaya and Asimina triloba are not particularly closely related.

Lechosa is the papaya (Carica), also called (incorrectly) pawpaw because...

According to Wikipedia "Ficus carica is dispersed by birds and mammals that scatter their seeds in droppings." How do they know that the seed was not brought there by a bird?

According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]." So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.

There are 855 species of figs and almost every single one of them has a corresponding species of fig wasp that pollinates only that fig "Most are not" only applies to figs you buy at the grocery store that are a variety of the Ficus carica species.

[Original Italian text sentences alternating with translated English sentences:] Nel microscopico la grandezza della carica dell’elettrone ei rapporti col protone: “i valori di questi numeri” scrive Hawking “sembrano essere stati esattamente coordinati per rendere possibile lo sviluppo della vita”.

In Australia, "pawpaw" is a name for the yellow papaya, a variety of Carica papaya.

According to Wikipedia "Ficus carica is dispersed by birds and mammals that scatter their seeds in droppings." How do they know that the seed was not brought there by a bird?

According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]." So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.

There are 855 species of figs and almost every single one of them has a corresponding species of fig wasp that pollinates only that fig "Most are not" only applies to figs you buy at the grocery store that are a variety of the Ficus carica species.

The Pawpaw/Carica papaya (called Papaya in North America), the Mountain Pawpaw/Vasconcellea pubescens, and the American Pawpaw/Asimina triloba (which this article is about).

Carica papaya and Asimina triloba are not particularly closely related.

Lechosa is the papaya (Carica), also called (incorrectly) pawpaw because...