Regular Names: Jackfruit, Jakfruit, Jaca, Nangka.

Related Species: Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), Breadnut (A. altilis 'Seminifera'), Champedak (A. whole number), Lakoocha (A. lakoocha), Marang (A. odoratissimus). Far off liking: Figs (Ficus spp.), Mulberries (Morus spp.), African Breadfruit (Treculia african).

Starting point: The jackfruit is trusted indigenous to the downpour timberlands of the Western Ghats of India. It spread at an opportune time to different parts of India, southeast Asia, the East Indies and at last the Philippines. It is regularly planted in focal and eastern Africa and is genuinely famous in Brazil and Surinam.

Adjustment: Jackfruit is adjusted to muggy tropical and close tropical atmospheres. Full grown trees have survived temperatures of around 27° F in southern Florida, yet these were solidified to substantial appendages. Youthful trees are liable to be murdered at temperatures beneath 32° F. Dissimilar to its relative, the breadfruit, the jackfruit is not harmed by cool climate a few degrees above solidifying. There are just twelve or so bearing jackfruit trees today in southern Florida, and these are esteemed fundamentally as interests. There are additionally a few trees planted in the Asian display at the San Diego Zoo. What they will do or how high they will develop remains an inquiry. The tree is too huge to make a reasonable compartment developed plant.

Portrayal:

Development Habit: The jackfruit tree is nice looking and stately. In the tropics it develops to a huge size, similar to an expansive eastern oak. In California it is exceptionally far fetched that it could ever approach this size. All parts contain a sticky, white latex.

Foliage: The leaves are elongated, oval, or elliptic in structure, 4 to 6 inches long, rough, polished, and dark green in shading. Adolescent leaves are lobed.

Blossoms: Male and female blooms are borne in isolated bloom heads. Male blossom heads are on new wood among the leaves or over the female. They are swollen, oval, from an inch to four crawls in length and up to an inch wide at the most extensive part. They are light green at to start with, then obscure. At the point when develop the head is secured with yellow dust that falls quickly subsequent to blooming. The female heads show up on short, heavy twigs that rise up out of the storage compartment and substantial branches, or even from the dirt secured base of extremely old trees. They resemble the male heads however without dust, and soon starts to swell. The stalks of both male and female bloom heads are circled by a little green ring.

Natural product: Jackfruit is the biggest tree-borne organic product on the planet, achieving 80 pounds in weight and up to 36 creeps in length and 20 inches in distance across. The outside of the compound organic product is green or yellow when ready. The inside comprises of vast eatable knobs of yellow, banana-seasoned tissue that encases a smooth, oval, light-chestnut seed. The seed is 3/4 to 1-1/2 crawls in length and 1/2 to 3/4 creeps thick and is white and fresh inside. There might be 100 or up to 500 seeds in a solitary natural product, which are practical for close to three or four days. At the point when completely ready, the unopened jackfruit discharges a solid unpleasant scent, taking after that of rotted onions, while the mash of the opened organic product odors of pineapple and banana.

There are two fundamental assortments. In one, the organic products have little, stringy, delicate, soft, however sweet carpels with a surface to some degree much the same as a crude clams. The other assortment is fresh and just about crunchy however not exactly as sweet. This structure is the more vital financially and is more satisfactory to western tastes.