Papayavariety
Rainbow
Also known as UH Rainbow
UH Rainbow
A Hawaiian papaya hybrid bred to resist ringspot virus.
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Origin · Hawaii, United States
Released 1998
No Rainbow photo yet
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Scent
- mild aroma
- Juiciness
- juicy
How to spot it
- Skin
- Ripe skin colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellow, orangeyelloworange
- Shape
- pear shapedpear shaped, oval
Harvest & storage
- Ripening
- Ready to eat when 70 to 90 percent of the skin is yellow and the fruit yields slightly when squeezed.
region: US-HI
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Origin & family
Where Rainbow began
Recorded origin
Hawaii
United States
- Institution
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
- Released
- 1998
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Field notes
Original source notes
- skin colour ripe
- yellow · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗
- flesh colour
- yellow, orange · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗
- flesh colour
- yellowedis.ifas.ufl.edu ↗
- flesh colour
- orange · Hawaiʻihawaiipapaya.com ↗
- shape
- pear shapedupov.int ↗
- shape
- pear shaped, oval · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗
- weight
- 455–905 g · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗
- sweetness
- high · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗
- texture
- juicy · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗
- aroma
- mild aroma · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗
- ripeness cue
- Ready to eat when 70 to 90 percent of the skin is yellow and the fruit yields slightly when squeezed. · Hawaiʻictahr.hawaii.edu ↗