Artocarpus incisa

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 Artocarpus incisa subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Artocarpus incisa, Linn. f. (A. communis, Forst.?). Bread-fruit. Fig. 392. Tree, 30-40 ft., with a viscid, milky juice: branches fragile: lvs. 1-3 ft. long, leathery, ovate, cuneate and entire at base, upper part 3-9-lobed: male fls. in a dense club-shaped yellow catkin, 10-16 in. long; female fls. in a subglobular echinate head, having a spongy receptacle: fr. 4-6 in. diam., typically muricated, but in the best cult, varieties reticulated only, and often seedless. Gt. 39, p. 273. Gng. 5:233, and B.M. 2869-2871, where the romantic story of its transfer to the W. Indies is told.—Sparingly cult. in S. Fla. and in warmhouses of botanic gardens. Eaten cooked, as a vegetable rather than as a fruit; widely used in tropics.


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