Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson ) Fosberg
Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson ) Fosberg
Family: Moraceae
Bread fruit
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Native of Pacific Islands.
Use: Edible
Description:
Evergreen trees, 10 - 15 m high. Leaves simple, alternate, broadly ovate, pinnatifid, base decurrent, margin of each lobes entire or dentate-serrate. Flowers unisexual; spikes on the main branches. Male catkin: 8-20 cm long, pendent, oblong-cylindrical; flower: perianth 2 mm, glabrous, bilobed; stamen 1. Female spike 4-8 cm long; perianth 2 mm. Fruit a sorosis 15-20 x 10-15 cm, oblong or round, set with conical process.