Installation view, Kathryn Andrews, «Trinity and Powers: In Search
of Breadfruit,» Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
See the world's largest collection
of breadfruit trees and remarkable and useful plants brought by the Polynesian settlers to Hawai'i.
It was the transportation
of the breadfruit to the West Indies that sent Captain Bligh (with the encouragement of Capt. James Cook) on his ill fated voyage on the HMS Bounty (1789).
Laura Spinney made a good case for the promotion
of breadfruit as a food staple, but there is yet another...
Not exact matches
Unusual vegetables include
breadfruits, strange - looking root crops like dasheen and taro, a wide variety
of pumpkins, christophene (chayote), and the leaves
of the dasheen, which resemble spinach and are used in the popular Caribbean soup, callaloo.
Generously sharing a wealth
of knowledge about island lore and history, Mme. Fournier also enumerated the accompanying side dishes that complete such a meal, and they are really starch - heavy: taro, manioc (often as a pan-baked sweet cake), several types
of banana which are customarily wrapped in leafy bundles like some sort
of tropical tamale, the islander's omnipresent staple —
breadfruit, potato, umara (sweet potato), plus an island chestnut which, along with the manioc,
breadfruit and some
of the bananas, can be prepared by grating and mixing with sugar, milk and coconut milk into both cakes and puddings.
Banana flour, coconut flour, and
breadfruit (ulu)-- all with long histories
of use in the tropical regions — are increasingly being used in baking mixes, typically from boutique processors.
That cargo included 1000
breadfruit plants destined for the Jamaican sugar plantations, whose owners were clamouring for a cheap and reliable source
of food for their slaves.
Breadfruit fell out
of favour long ago, eclipsed by cheap imports based on wheat, rice and maize.
In 1792, by now promoted to captain, he set out again from Tahiti and successfully shipped 2000
breadfruit plants to Jamaica, 678
of which bore fruit.
Alternating layers
of filleted carcass, guts, fern fronds, banana leaves, and
breadfruit are placed into earth pits along with sweet potatoes or bananas, chopped greens, and stones that have been preheated.
The Mortlock Islands flying fox, a large,
breadfruit - eating bat native to a few remote and tiny Pacific islands, has long been regarded as one
of the world's least studied bats.
This culture grew taro, yams, and
breadfruit; brought pigs and chickens; and spread rapidly to the islands
of Vanuatu and New Caledonia and eventually to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and beyond.
The jackfruit is a species
of tree in the fig, mulberry, and
breadfruit family and is native to South India.
Marble Queen Marigold Marijuana Mescal Bean Mexican
Breadfruit Mistletoe Mock Orange Morning Glory Mother - in Law's Tongue Mountain Laurel Mushrooms Narcissus Nephytis Oleander Onion Peach Pits & Leaves Peony Periwinkle Philodendron Pimpernel Plumosa Fern Poinsettia Pokeweed Poppy Potato Precatory Bean Primrose Privet Red Emerald Red Margined Dracaena Rhododendron Rhubarb Rosemary Pea Rubber Plant Sago Palm Schefflera Scotch Broom Skunk Cabbage Snowdrops Staggerweed Star
of Bethlehem String
of Pearls Sweetpea Swiss Cheese plant Tansy Mustard Tobacco Tomato - Green Fruit stem and leaves Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia Tulip Tung Tree Virginia Creeper Weeping Fig Wild Call Wisteria Yews - Japanese, American, English, Western
Indian Rubber Plant Janet Craig Dracaena Japanese Show Lily Jerusalem Cherry Kalanchoe Lacy Tree Philodendron Lily
of the Valley Madagascar Dragon Tree Marble Queen Marijuana Mexican
Breadfruit Miniature Croton Mistletoe Morning Glory Mother - in - Law's Tongue Narcissus Needlepoint Ivy Nephytis Nightshade Oleander Onion Oriental Lily Peace Lily Peach (wilting leaves / pits) Pencil Cactus Plumosa Fern Poinsettia (low toxicity) Poison Ivy Poison Oak Pothos Precatory Bean Primrose Red Emerald Red - Margined Dracaena Red Princess Rhododendron Ribbon Plant Saddle Leaf Philodendron Sago Palm Satin Pothos Schefflera Silver Pothos Spotted Dumb Cane Striped Dracaena String
of Pearls Sweetheart Ivy Swiss Cheese Plant Taro Vine Tiger Lily (especially cats!)
Enter through a
breadfruit grove and a wild forest
of hala, and the most informative visits are the guided tours that take place on Saturday mornings.
To and from this area you'll have fantastic views and scoot through some more desolate but beautiful landscape
of the island: think cassava, papaya, bananas,
breadfruit, coconut palms and teak trees.
Found in the same yard as the
breadfruit tree, it is more
of a bush.
Breadfruit: locally «mazapan»: Artocarpus altilis (communis): Family Moraceae The breadfruit, a member of the mulberry family, is probably native to the Sunda Islands, but now is cultivated in Asia, America and the We
Breadfruit: locally «mazapan»: Artocarpus altilis (communis): Family Moraceae The
breadfruit, a member of the mulberry family, is probably native to the Sunda Islands, but now is cultivated in Asia, America and the We
breadfruit, a member
of the mulberry family, is probably native to the Sunda Islands, but now is cultivated in Asia, America and the West Indies.
Although mutiny terminated his first voyage, he succeeded on a later voyage in 1792 in bringing the
breadfruit to the Caribbean, but it was not able to replace the plantain as a staple food
of the area.
Colorful and luscious mangoes, lychees, Passion Fruit,
Breadfruit (Ulu), Dragon Fruit, Star Fruit, Papayas, and Sugar Loaf Pineapples - such a bounty
of lush tropical produce awaits you at the Sunday Farmers Market every week....
Kahanu Garden boasts the world's largest collection
of «ulu (Hawaiian for «
breadfruit»), with more than 120 varieties from 18 Pacific island... Continue»
With tropical climates and an unparalleled blaze
of colour, this island paradise offers numerous uninhabited atolls with beautiful and unspoiled natural treasures
of abundant palm forests and lush
breadfruit trees.
The restaurant has a brick oven and a menu that includes a variety
of flatbreads, pork chops, roasted
breadfruit and sea asparagus.
Grenada A trip to the spice island
of Grenada is not complete without sampling the island's famous Oil Down: salted meat, chicken, dumplings,
breadfruit, callaloo, and vegetables stewed in coconut milk and spices all in one huge pot.
Below the pool area is an expanse
of green lawn planted with bananas and other fruit trees,
breadfruit, palms and other tropical flora.
And not even the
breadfruit high up on the Ụkwa tree can escape the rule
of life.»
Most
of the work thus far has been planting
breadfruit trees in Haiti and Jamaica.