Fruit; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1/2013 © Jörn Germer
Fruit in cross section; Zanzibar, Tanzania; 1/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn
Fruits; Zanzibar, Tanzania; 1/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn
Fruits; Ibadan, Nigeria; 6/2001 © Joachim Sauerborn
Upper surface of leaf; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer
Lower surface of leaf; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer
Bark; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer
Habit; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer
Identifier: 1326 Date of entry: 15.06.2010 Last update: 11.01.2020
English: Breadfruit
German: Brotfruchtbaum
Portuguese: Árvore-do-pão
Kingdom: Plantae (2635)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2573)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2146)
Order: Rosales (118)
Family: Moraceae (29)(family description)
Genus: Artocarpus (4)
Epithet: altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg (1)
altilis => fattened, fat
Climate: tropical
Habit: tree
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