Taxon: Blighia sapida K. D. Koenig

Common names:

• akee   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• akee-apple   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• akée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• fisanier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Akibaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• castanheiro-da-África   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• akí   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• huevo vegetal   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• seso vegetal   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ) – Spanish
  
• aki   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• ackee   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – unknown
  

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:

• 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

• also cultivated in 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).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Keay, R. W. J. 1989. Trees of Nigeria.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Pammel, L. H. 1911. Manual of poisonous plants. [poisonous].
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Blighia sapida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Blighia sapida.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Blighia sapida.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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