VARIOUS DIETS AND TREATMENTS – PAPAIN – ITS ORIGIN AND USES (WHERE DO THESE PLANTS SUDDENLY SPRING FROM?)
The answer escaped me for quite a while, but I found it in the end, and it is actually very simple. You see, birds like papaya too and when they find the fruit growing in clearings they swoop down and pick at them, seeds and all. Off they fly again and on the way their droppings, together with the undigested seeds, fall back onto the jungle floor where they remain dormant for ten, twenty, or perhaps even a hundred years or more, the reason being that the dense forest shuts out all sunlight from the earth, and without light they cannot sprout. However, as soon as a clearing is cut in the jungle the sunlight warms the earth, the seeds begin to germinate and within a year, because their growth is very fast indeed, you have a plant the height of a man.
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