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Name: Ackee / Akee- Blighia sapida
Zones: Tropical and Sub Tropical
Growth Habit: Rounded to Oval shaped Canopy
Common Height: 30 to 75'
Light Conditions: Full Sun
Soil Type: well drained, deep, fertile soils and non-fertile soils like sands and oolitic limestone.
Salt Spray Tolerant:
Drought Tolerance:
Use: & Comments: CAUTION: Most of the ackee fruit is not edible; only the fleshy pulp (aril) attached to fully developed, inedible seeds may be eaten when fruit is picked at the right stage of development and prepared properly. The fruit must only be picked after the fruit has naturally opened (split; sometimes called awned). All parts of the immature (unripe) or overripe fruit are highly poisonous (hypoglycin A and B toxin). The red tissue and veins that attach the aril to the seed must be removed before eating properly harvested fruit (UF/IFAS)
Zones: Tropical and Sub Tropical
Growth Habit: Rounded to Oval shaped Canopy
Common Height: 30 to 75'
Light Conditions: Full Sun
Soil Type: well drained, deep, fertile soils and non-fertile soils like sands and oolitic limestone.
Salt Spray Tolerant:
Drought Tolerance:
Use: & Comments: CAUTION: Most of the ackee fruit is not edible; only the fleshy pulp (aril) attached to fully developed, inedible seeds may be eaten when fruit is picked at the right stage of development and prepared properly. The fruit must only be picked after the fruit has naturally opened (split; sometimes called awned). All parts of the immature (unripe) or overripe fruit are highly poisonous (hypoglycin A and B toxin). The red tissue and veins that attach the aril to the seed must be removed before eating properly harvested fruit (UF/IFAS)
