Descriptions and articles about the Akee, scientifically known as Blighia sapida in the Encyclopedia of Life. Includes Overview; Brief Summary; Molecular Bio. Blighia sapida (Sapindaceae). Common Names. English: ackee, akee. Spanish: akí, seso vegetal. French: aki, arbre fricassé. Portuguese: castanheiro do Africa. Originating in tropical West Africa, the Ackee tree is cultivated for its fruit which are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. It is now widely.
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It is suitable for interior trim, joinery and railway sleepers. Ackee growing in the Florida home landscape. The flowers are pollinated by insects such as bees.
Blighia sapida
Navigation menu Personal tools Log in Request account. Publisher Weinheim Year ISBN – Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants.
Upon arrival at Kew, this tree was named Blighia sapida by K.
It prefers well-drained deep fertile soils, but occurs also on non-fertile sandy soils and limestone. Sapidw are sensitive to desiccation and are considered short-lived.
Contact us Site map Disclaimer. Blighia sapida Ackee Blighia sapida. Cultivated tree Photograph by: It blughia easy to work with both machine and hand tools. Arils for fresh consumption should be picked from dehisced fruits, which ensures that the seeds and arils are fully ripe and that arils do not contain serious amounts of toxin.
In Togo, decoctions of bark or fruit walls are applied to wounds, and the fruit pulp to treat whitlow. Blighia sapida Blighia sapida by Marianne North.
Blighia sapida
Blighia sapida obtained from TopTropicals. It is now widely, blihgia sparingly distributed outside of its native range, except on the island of Jamaica where its extensive cultivation has caused it to become naturalised. In Florida and other regions where Blighia sapida is planted for commercial fruit production, young trees are fertilized every 1—2 months during the first year.
In Ghana, bark ground-up with capsicum pepper Capsicum annuum L.
Blighia sapida (PROTA) – PlantUse English
Fruiting may occur throughout the year, but principally in December through May in sapica Northern Hemisphere. The tree is also planted as an ornamental. The useful plants of West Tropical Africa. It is quite widespread and is commonly planted. Performs best on free-draining clay-loam, loam and sandy-loam soils of a moderately acid to slightly alkaline nature, generally with a pH of 5.
Flowers probably functionally unisexual, regular, 5-merous, greenish white to greenish yellow, sweet-scented; pedicel up to 6 mm long, elongating up to 10 mm in fruit; calyx with tube about as long as lobes, 2—3 mm long; petals free, rhomboid, 3—4 mm long, hairy, with a 2-lobed scale on the inner face; stamens 6—10, free, filaments up to 6 bloghia long, hairy in lower part; ovary superior, hairy, usually 3-lobed and 3-celled, style short; male flowers with rudimentary ovary, female bliighia with reduced stamens.
Physical properties of ackee apple Blighia sapida seeds.
Boiled arils are an ingredient of a popular traditional dish in Jamaica, together with salt fish. Topping the main shoot at a height of about 5 m is recommended to facilitate fruit harvesting. An ink for tattoos is made from the seeds. It is moderately durable and is quite resistant to termite attack.
In Jamaica, stem galls are common. In Blighia sapida emerged as a high-priority species for domestication in Benin after a national survey.