Taxon: Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg

Common names:

• breadfruit   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• dugdug   (Source: web document) – English
  
• arbre à pain   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Brotfruchtbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ‘ulu   (Source: Trad Tree Init ) – Hawaiian
  
• fruta-pão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• árbol del pan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• fruta de pan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• brödfrukt   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide J Arn Arb 40:309. 1959)
  
• Human food: seeds   (fide J Arn Arb 40:309. 1959)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide J Arn Arb 40:309. 1959)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide J Arn Arb 40:309. 1959)
  
• Materials: latex/rubber   (fide J Arn Arb 40:309. 1959)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia - Irian Jaya, Moluccas [perhaps indigenous]; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia [perhaps indigenous]; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands [perhaps indigenous]; Vanuatu [perhaps indigenous]

• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia

• cultivated throughout tropics

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Berg, C. C. 2001. Moreae, Arocarpeae, and Dorstenia (Moraceae) with introductions to the family and Ficus and with additions and corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 83:143.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. [= A. incisus L. f.].
• Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
• Florence, J. 1997–. Flore de la Polynésie française.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jarrett, F. M. 1959. Studies in Artocarpus and allied genera, III. A revision of Artocarpus subgenus Artocarpus (cont.). J. Arnold Arbor. 40:307–323. [= A. communis J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. [= A. incisus L. f.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Ragone, D. 1994. Acta Hort. 413:93–98.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:83.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [= A. communis J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.].
• Zerega, N. J. C. et al. 2005. Systematics and species limits of breadfruit (Artocarpus, Moraceae). Syst. Bot. 30:603–615.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Artocarpus altilis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Artocarpus altilis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Artocarpus altilis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Artocarpus communis J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.
  (previously associated with 26 accessions)
• (=) Artocarpus incisus (Thunb.) L. f.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Artocarpus mariannensis Trécul
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Radermachia incisa Thunb.
  
• (≡) Sitodium altile Parkinson (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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