Breadfruit Africa
28Breadfruit is now grown in a wide swathe across the globe from the South Pacific islands through South and Southeast Asia the Caribbean Central America and Africa. Breadfruit is a highly diverse over 120 known varieties tropical fruit tree growing to heights of 9 to 18 metres with large 20-90 cm long dark green leaves.
Ecstatic we are to report our second shipment of trees has arrived safely.

Breadfruit africa. The consumption is now limited largely within the farming families as occasional snacks hence its cultivation in little to no-existent and now serves as volunteer trees on farms. 15Breadfruit to East Africa. Its oil is free from rancid odour.
Ukwa is such a versatile food with a natural delicious flavour. 14African breadfruit is in a food class of its own. But it grows very well in most tropical areas of the world and thrives in wet ecologies of Africa.
African breadfruit has both domestic and export potentials and other valued uses. 4This is an important source of food in some parts of Africa. 26Treculia africana is the other name for African breadfruit and across the web from wikipedia and sundries it is same as ukwa.
The fruit ranges from 9 to 45 cm in length and from 5 to 30 cm in diameter and weighs up to 6 kg. It is known as Ukwa in Igbo and the scientific name is Treculia africana. It thrives on Pitcairn.
They flew into Nairobi Kenya courtesy of Cultivaris in Germany and National Tropical Botanical Gardens in Hawaii. In addition to the Pacific and the Caribbean the breadfruit tree also grows in some coastal regions of Africa especially Mozambique and Guinea. 15Bread fruit originates from New guinea and the Philippines.
I am not oblivious of the discrepancies we have in naming African. 1African breadfruit Treculia africana Family. It begins to bear fruit after about six years and remains productive for over 50 years.
Breadfruit is grown in backyards orchards marginal lands and home gardens by local communities in some developing countries such as Nigeria. I was not sure where to put it but finally settled for beans section because breadfruit seeds are most similar to beans. Moraceae is a food tree crop of high nutritional value.
Posted on April 15 2019 by Michael McLaughlin. African breadfruit is a possible commercial raw material for production of vegetable oil pharmaceuticals soaps perfumes and paints Osabor et al 2009. In Nigeria the plant is mainly grown in the eastern states where it is normally planted some distance away from residential areas to avert the danger posed by its heavy large fruits.
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