Plants and Flowers

The native land of a jackfruit is India (Eastern Ghats) and Bangladesh; now it is most extended in Southeast Asia and on Philippines. There are also its plantings in the Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda). In islands of Oceania and in tropics of the New World, except for northern Brazil and Surinam, jackfruit can be rarely met.

In Southern India jackfruit in respect to natural occurrence is comparable with mango and banana trees. The area of its plantings is estimated in 64 247,40 acres. On Sri Lanka (11 001,13 acres) it is grown mainly for the sake of its wood.

It is also widely cultivated in Thailand. But as a whole, because of an unpleasant smell of “waste products” jackfruit is incomparable with fruits of breadfruit tree.

• Jackfruit in cookery and manufacture
• Jackfruit
• Room growing of a jackfruit
• Annual flowers in flower beds