Taxon: Blighia sapida K. D. Koenig

Common names:

• ackee   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 )
  
• akée   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• akí   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• akee   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• akee-apple   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Akibaum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• castanheiro-da-África   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• fisanier   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• huevo vegetal   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• seso vegetal   (Source: CRC MedHerbs )
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (for the edible aril fide CultTropS)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (unripe fruits and seeds fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann; Pammel; Pl Book)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Blighia sapida from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Gabon; Sao Tome and Principe
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo

Other:

• cultivated elsewhere in tropics

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun. (F Cameroun)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Keay, R. W. J. 1989. Trees of Nigeria. (Trees Nigeria)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Blighia sapida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Blighia sapida. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Cupania sapida Voigt
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Blighia sapida K. D. Koenig:

• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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