木瓜为番木瓜科番木瓜属植物,与香蕉、菠萝同称为“热带三大草本果树”。它属于外来引种水果,大约在17世纪明朝后期时传入中国,目前主要分布在广东、海南、广西、云南、福建、台湾等地。因其外形与中国木瓜相似,且来自异域,为了与本土木瓜区分,故名“番木瓜”。与中国原产木瓜不 Papaya papaya family papaya, and bananas, pineapple common as “three tropical fruit tree ”. It belongs to the exotic introduced fruit, which was introduced to China around the late Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. Currently it is mainly distributed in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian and Taiwan. Because of its shape similar to the Chinese papaya, and from the exotic, in order to distinguish with the native papaya, hence the name papaya . Not with Chinese native papaya