Monday, July 1, 2024

Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.

 

Family: moraceae

Synonym: Saccus heterophyllus (Lam.) Kuntze 

Vernacular name: Plavu

Habit: Tree

Habitat: Evergreen tree

Distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics, origin is probably South India

Flowering & Fruiting: March- August

Key identification features: Trunk usually tubercled; bark blackish-grey, lenticels reddish- brown, irregularly flaky; blaze cream. Flowers unisexual, in spikes enclosed by spathe-like bracts; male flowers in narrow cylindrical-oblong catkin on young branches; female flowers usually cauliflorus. Fruit and Seed Syncarp (sorosis), large, oblong, with short hard echinate processes.

Uses: Used as Food ,fodder ,fuelwood




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