Bread plants Arctocarpus altilis

Bread Arctocarpus altilis (Photo: caribfruits) Wheat bread but residents on some South Pacific islands eat bread from the tree. It is the bread tree.

Woody bread, evergreen, mulberry (Moraceae). Trees are usually higher than 10m, highest to 40-60m. The trunk is large, the leaves are dense, the leaves are big and beautiful, each leaf has 3 colors, the local people often take the leaves to make beautiful hats. Male flower bread with tree. Female flowers grow into spontaneous flowers and spherical bunches. Fruit grows in the trunk from the foot to the tip. Each fruit is made up of a flower called a bunch of fruits, which are different and small, the fruit is as big as a ball, and the fruit is as small as an orange, the most fruit is about 20kg The result is very long, from November to July next year. Each year, fruits can be harvested 3 times, this is a delicious, seedless and delicious fruit. A tree gives fruits 60-70 years.

Nutrition fruit bread is very rich, starchy, rich in vitamins A and B, less protit and lipid. Ripe fruits are cooked, baked, until golden is edible . Delicious and soft toast, sweet and sour, a bit like bread. The bread can also make fruit juice and wine.

Bread fruit is an indispensable wooden food crop of the local people. Every house is grown, every bread can feed 1-2 people.

Bread is widely distributed: India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Africa, Guangdong, Taiwan.

Arctocarpus altilis bread (Photo: ctahr.hawaii)