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Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. "jakfruit", "jackfruit"
te mai rekereke (K)
syns. A. integrifolia sensu L. f. ; A. integer sensu (Thunb.) Merr.
Pre-World War I1 introduction. Indomalaysia. Rare. Medium tree, 10 to 20 m
high, with thick milky sap and young twigs with many long, rigid hairs which are often
hooked at the apex; leaves, 5 to 25 cm long and 3 to 12 cm wide, alternate, oval or
oblong, entire (sometimes 3-lobed on young trees), acuminate, acute or obtuse, base
cuneate or obtuse, non-decurrent, dark-green, coriaceous, with stiff hairs; petioles, about
3.5 cm long; stipules, 1.5 to 8.5 cm long; male inflorescences, axillary or terminal
spikelike clusters, 2.5 to 10 cm long and 1 to 3 cm in diameter, ellipsoid-clavate, terete,
yellow or greenish yellow; female inflorescences, in globose or oblong heads which turn
into fruit and which are borne on the trunk or older branches (cauliflorous or ramiflor-
ous); fruit stalk 7 to 12 cm long; fruit, a syncarp, usually 30 to 40 cm long but oc-
casionally up to 60 to 90 cm long and about half as wide, oblong cylindric, golden
yellow to yellow-green, weighing up to 20 kg, rind studded with hexagonal bluntly conic
carpel apices; inner flesh pulpy, waxy, whitish-yellow, acid or sweetish or fetid when
over-ripe; seeds, 2 to 3 cm long, rounded, brown, enclosed in a slippery pulpy jacket.
Planted fruit tree reported present by Burges in 1933; young tree seen in Topside
Workshop food gardens in 1987. Ripe fruit eaten; immature fruit cooked as a supplemen-
tary staple in curries by Indians. A. integrifolia and A. integer are incorrect botanical
names for the jakfruit and according to Corner (in Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 1056-81,
1939), A. integer refers to a separate species, the champedak which is not present in
Nauru, and A. integrifolia is an illegitimate name (Smith, 1981). 2,6.
Artocarpus mariannensis Trec. "Marianas breadfruit"
damenkamor (N); te mai kora (K); matua mei (T)
Aboriginal introduction? Micronesia. Occasional. Tree similar to A. altilis; leaves
smaller, 10 to 30 cm long, half as wide, broadly obovate to broadly elliptic, acute to
acuminate, entire to variously lobed in the upper part, but cutting usually not more than
halfway to the midrib, usually less, with some leaves often quite entire, base cuneate,
glabrous and somewhat shiny above, brown hairs on the veins and midrib beneath;
petiole, up to 4.5 cm long, usually half this length; male spike, up to about 8 to 10 cm
long; fruit, rather small, shortly cylindric, usually with several large seeds and somewhat
scanty pulp. Planted staple fruit tree. Same uses as for A. altilis, but fruit of A. marian-
nensis eaten raw and cooked. 3(58755), 5, 6, 7.
Ficus benghalensis L. -- "banyan", "Indian banyan", "east Indian fig", "Vada tree"
Recent introduction. India. Occasional. Large spreading tree, up to 20 m or
higher and often several times as wide, with milky latex and massive pillar roots,
descending from branches, which extend the tree laterally, sometimes almost indefinitely;