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Vasconcellea monoica (commonly known as col de montaña, col de monte, or peladera in Spanish) is a species of flowering plant in the family Caricaceae. It is native to Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. The plant has a chromosome count of 2n = 18.
It was previously placed in genus Carica.
Babaco · Mountain Papaya · Austral Papaya · Highland Papaya · Vasconcellea horovitziana · Vasconcellea omnilingua · Vasconcellea palandensis · Vasconcellea parviflora · Mountain papaya · Vasconcellea pulchra · Oak Leaf Pawpaw · Vasconcellea sprucei
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vasconcellea monoica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
