General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 13
Plant Height: 82 feet
Plant Spread: 30 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Other: pinnate lobes
Fruit: Other: edible to wild pigs
Fruiting Time: Year Round
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: Bi-Color: green and yellow
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Year Round
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Vegetable
Edible Parts: Seeds or Nuts
Fruit
Eating Methods: Cooked
Fermented
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Propagation: Other methods: Layering
Stolons and runners
Pollinators: Self
Containers: Not suitable for containers
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • Breadfruit
  • Breadnut
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Artocarpus altilis
  • Synonym: Artocarpus communis

Photo Gallery
Location: Sumatra, Indonesia, My garden
Date: 2021-11-24
variegated form
Location: Granada
Date: 2015-12-15

Date: 2015-07-20
Location: On a beach, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-10
Location: Bradenton, Florida
Bread Fruit
Location: indoors Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2021-01-25
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) seeds. This variety has smaller f
Location: Kauai
Date: 2010-11-18
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-10
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-10
Location: Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: 2014-02-03
Young tree.
Location: La Fortuna, Costa Rica | Old Photo
Date: 2022-12-17

credit: US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center
Uploaded by Easykaya
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-10
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: March 2013
Location: Keanae Arboretum, Maui, Hawaii.
photo by Forest & Kim Starr
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: Maui Nui Botanical Garden
Date: March 18, 2004
photo by Forest & Kim Starr

photo credit: Karen Blix
Comments:
  • Posted by janelp_lee (Toronto, Ontario - Zone 6a) on Feb 29, 2020 10:23 PM concerning plant:
    Easy to grow from seeds, but seeds do not stay viable long. Plant can grow very large in a tropical climate. The one I grow does not have deep-cut leaves, so the dinner-plate-sized leaves are used for food wrap or disposable "plates" in tropical areas, which is very environment-friendly.

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