Jackfruit generally weighs 5-20 kg, and the heaviest is over 59 kg. The pulp can be eaten fresh or processed into canned food, preserved fruit and juice. Seeds are rich in starch and can be cooked; Jackfruit is a beautiful shade tree and street tree with neat tree shape, thick crown and strange fruit. A century-old jackfruit tree with golden wood and hard material can be used to make furniture and yellow dyes.
Features:
Distribution: China, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Fujian and Yunnan (south) are often cultivated. Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Malaysia are also cultivated. Jackfruit likes tropical climate. Suitable for growing in frost-free areas with abundant annual rainfall. I like light and grow rapidly. I was a little shade-tolerant when I was a child. I like deep and fertile soil and avoid water accumulation.
Evergreen trees, 10-20m high, 30-50cm；; In DBH；; Old trees often have slab roots; The bark is thick and dark brown; Branchlets 2-6 mm thick, longitudinally wrinkled to smooth, glabrous; Stipules hold stems in a ring shape with obvious scars. Leaves leathery, spirally arranged, ovoid or obovate, 7- 15 cm long or longer, 3-7 cm wide, blunt or tapering at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, and the mature leaves are entire.
The leaves on young trees and sprouting branches often crack, with dark green surface, light green or light brown after drying, hairless, shiny, light green on the back, slightly rough, mesophyll cells with long arms, spherical or oval resin cells in the tissue, 6-8 lateral veins on each side, and the midvein on the back is obviously protruding; Petiole length 1-3 cm; Stipules clasping stems, ovoid, long 1.5-8 cm, externally appressed or glabrous, falling off.