Treculia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Treculia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Treculia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Treculia
Treculia is a genus of trees in the plant family Moraceae that is native to west and central Africa and Madagascar. The best-known member of the genus, Treculia africana, commonly known as the African breadfruit, is used as a food plant.
The fruits are hard and fibrous, can be the size of a volleyball and weight up to 8.5 kg. Chimpanzees have been observed to use tools to break the fruits into small pieces that they can eat.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Allaeanthus
- Ampalis
- Antiaris
- Antiaropsis
- Artocarpus
- Bagassa
- Batocarpus
- Bleekrodea
- Bosqueiopsis
- Brosimum
- Broussonetia
- Calaunia
- Castilla
- Chlorophora
- Clarisia
- Dorstenia
- Fatoua
- Ficus
- Helianthostylis
- Helicostylis
- Hijmania
- Maclura
- Maillardia
- Malaisia
- Maquira
- Mesogyne
- Milicia
- Morus
- Naucleopsis
- Parartocarpus
- Perebea
- Poulsenia
- Prainea
- Pseudolmedia
- Scyphosyce
- Sloetiopsis
- Sorocea
- Sparattosyce
- Streblus
- Treculia
- Trilepisium
- Trophis
- Trymatococcus
- Utsetela