Bread-fruit (Artocarpus incisa) is a tree of the family Artocarpaceae, native to the East Indies and islands of the Pacific, but also grown in the Caribbean. The tree grows to a height of about 30 metres. The leaves are leathery, about one foot long and three or four inches wide. The fruit of the tree is a large globular fruit of a pale-green colour, about the size of a child's head, marked on the surface with irregular six-sided depressions, and containing a white and somewhat fibrous pulp, which when ripe becomes juicy and yellow and when roasted tastes somewhat like bread, hence the name. The sap of the tree is similar in appearance to cows milk, and is considered nutritious, hence the alternative name of cow-tree. The inner bark of the tree is made into a kind of cloth. The wood is used for the building of boats and for furniture. Research Bread-fruit
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