面包树 Artocarpus altilis

  • Scientific Name: Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg
  • Ref: J. Washington Acad. Sci. 31:95. 1941
  • Synonyms: Artocarpus communis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.; A. incisus (Thunb.) L.f.; A. laevis Hassk.; A. rima Blanco; Radermachia incisa Thunb.; Sitodium altile Parkinson; Saccus communis (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Kuntze; S. laevis (Hassk.) Kuntze
  • English Common Name: breadfruit
  • Chinese Common Name: 面包树 miànbāoshù, 面包果树 miànbāoguǒ∙shù
  • Japanese Common Name: パンノキ [パンの木] pannoki
  • Family: Moraceae
  • Genus: Artocarpus
  • Distribution: Cultivated;; Low elevations. Hainan, Taiwan [probably native to tropical Asia; now cultivated throughout the tropics].
  • Photo: 06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong
Trees 10-15 m tall, evergreen. Bark grayish brown, thick. Branchlets 0.5-1.5 cm thick. Stipules amplexicaul, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 10-25 cm, pubescence yellowish green, gray, or brown, hairs bent. Leaves spirally arranged; petiole 8-12 cm; leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic, 10-50 cm, thickly leathery, glabrous, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green and shiny, margin entire, apex acuminate; secondary veins 10 on each side of midvein. Leaves on mature trees pinnately lobed or pinnatipartite; lobes or segments 3-8, lanceolate. Inflorescences axillary, solitary. Male inflorescences yellow, narrowly cylindric, narrowly ellipsoid, or clavate, 7-30(-40) cm. Male flowers: calyx tubular, apically 2-lobed, pubescent, lobes lanceolate; anthers elliptic. Female flowers: calyx tubular; ovary ovoid; style long, apically 2-branched. Fruiting syncarp green to yellow, brown to black when mature, obovoid to ± globose, 15-30 × 8-15 cm, tuberculate; pericarp soft; mesocarp of milky white fleshy calyx. Drupes ellipsoid to conic, ca. 2.5 cm in diam. (Flora of China)

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