Papaya trees are shrubs or small trees, up to 5-10 meters high. Branchlets in the early color of purplish red, hairy, two years later, the branches glabrous, purple brown, winter buds for semicircle, the apex is more round blunt.
Malus papaya belongs to deciduous shrub to small tree, 2-6m high. Branchlets are purplish brown and glabrous. The winter buds are triangular ovate, and the apex is acute.
Papaya leaves are oval or oval oblong, few are obovate, at the beginning there are many yellow and white villi below, soon will fall off.
The leaves of papaya and Begonia are oval or lanceolate, then to inverted egg and lanceolate. At the initial stage, there is no hair on the top and brown hair on the bottom, and they will fall off almost without hair later.
Papaya fruit shape is long oval, color is dark yellow. And the fruit of papaya Begonia is ovoid or nearly cylindrical, the color is yellow with a little red surface.