Trees & Plants

Jack fruit tree

Sakkeyo

Artocarpus heterophyllus

Occasional, grown in homesteads Fruit flesh and seeds are used to prepare a variety of products like chips, jams, jelly, wine, squash, etc. Fruit flesh and seeds are also used to make curries. Ripened in flesh is sweet and delicious. Timber is used for multi-purpose constructions

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uses: Fruit flesh and seeds are used to prepare a variety of products like chips, jams, jelly, wine, squash, etc. Fruit flesh and seeds are also used to make curries. Ripened in flesh is sweet and delicious. Timber is used for multi-purpose constructions. The roots are credited with antidiarrheal property and used internally in diarrhea. Leaves are used in fever, boils, wounds, skin diseases and as an antidote in snake bite. The unripe fruits are useful in dyspepsia and debility. The latex is useful in ophthalmitis.
family: Moraceae
synonym: Artocarpus integrifolius L. f., Artocarpus maximus Blanco
description: Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark blackish-grey, exfoliating in large thick flakes; exudation milky white. × Leaves simple, alternate, 8-23 3-13 cm, in obovate or elliptic-ovate, base acute, apex acute or obtuse, shining above and scabrous beneath; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs; petiole 20-40 mm long, grooved above. Flowers unisexual, minute, yellowish-green, in flspikes enclosed by spathe-like bracts. for Male inflorescence from young branches, catkin narrow-cylindric; perianth 2-lobed, puberulous; stamen 1. Female catkins in from the trunk and mature branches, more an massive, perianth with strongly projecting × conical apex. Fruit a sorosis, 30-60 20-40 Lam. NARAHDISAS .N/OAF f., cm, oblong, tuberculate, tubercles conical, yellowish-green, fruiting perianth yellow to × light orange, fleshy; seeds 10-12 8-10 mm, elliptic-oblong, smooth, glossy.
native range: Probably South India m
distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics in
english names: Jack fruit tree
flowering fruiting: November – April
occurrence maldives: Occasional, grown in homesteads