Trees & Plants

Breadfruit

Ban bukeyo

Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson

Very common in homesteads Breadfruit is a staple component in the Maldivian diet. It can be cooked and eaten at all stages of development. Bondivi, a traditional sweet is made out of the fruit. Boiled fruit with tuna fish and coconut forms an appetising traditional food. Fruit ch

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uses: Breadfruit is a staple component in the Maldivian diet. It can be cooked and eaten at all stages of development. Bondivi, a traditional sweet is made out of the fruit. Boiled fruit with tuna fish and coconut forms an appetising traditional food. Fruit chips are also used. Medically, the fruits are bitter, sweet, acrid, cooling, diuretic and appetiser. The latex is useful in external application for abscesses. The roots are useful in diarrhea and dysentery. Wood is very soft and light and hence mainly used to make boat parts, surfing boards and fish floats.
family: Moraceae
synonym: Artocarpus communis J. R. Forst. & G. Forst., Artocarpus incisus (Th unb.) L. f.
description: Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, exudate latex. Leaves simple, alternate, 10- × 60 8-30 cm, broadly ovate, pinnatifid, base decurrent, apex acuminate, lobes oblong, margin of each lobes entire or dentate-serrate, chartaceous, sericeous-pubescent along the a nerves above, densely beneath; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs; stipule 10-25 cm long; petiole 3-6 an cm long, stout, brown tomentose. Flowers are unisexual; spikes on the main branches. × Male catkin 8-20 1-2 cm, oblong-cylindric; Th perianth 2 mm, bilobed; stamen 1. Female × × spike 4-8 3-6 cm. Fruit a sorosis 15-20 10- 15 cm, oblong or round, set with conical process; peduncle 4-12 cm; seeds 1.5-2.5 cm, ex F.A. Zorn) Fosberg oblong-cylindric (seed formation is very rare). f.
native range: Pacific Islands
distribution: Introduced and cultivated in the tropics and subtropics
english names: Breadfruit
flowering fruiting: January – June
occurrence maldives: Very common in homesteads