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Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.
Synonym: Artocarpus integrifolius Wight.,
Artocarpus brasiliensis Ortega.
MORACEAE
Local Names:
പ്ലാവ്, Jack
Fruit Tree.
Flowering Period : November to April
Distribution : Widely cultivated in the tropics, origin is probably South India
Uses: Edible fruits, Timber yeilding.
Exotic : No
Evergreen
tree with bark blackish-grey, mottled with green and black having exudation
milky white latex. Leaves are simple, alternate, obovate-oblong, margin entire,
glabrous and shining above and scabrous beneath. Flowers unisexual, minute,
yellowish-green, in spikes enclosed by spathe-like bracts, male from young
branches, catkin; perianth 2-lobed, stamen 1. Female catkins from the trunk
ovary superior. Fruit a sorosis, yellowish-green.
