BOTANICAL RECORD
Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg
Breadfruit · Arbre à pain · Moraceae
At Odo Valley
Record the first Odo harvests
Hypothesis
- Record flowering and harvest dates, fruit count and mass, usable proportion, damage, any seeds, and flesh colour and texture. Compare at least steamed and roasted preparations at similar maturity. Photograph the tree, leaves and cut fruit. Cultivar and annual yield remain unknown. Reported vigour at 3–4 years is a valuable local observation, to preserve without extrapolation.
Documentation and strength of evidence
Documentation: Not assessed
Claimed effect: Not evaluated
Odo Valley notes
One breadfruit tree at Odo Valley. On 26 September 2026, JB reports an age of approximately 3–4 years, a height over 10 m and the beginning of production. Cultivar, propagation method, exact position and yield are not recorded. Estimated age is not a planting date. The local breadnut has a separate record.
Field observations
One 3–4-year-old tree, already over 10 m tall
- Known date or period
- 26 September 2026 — report
- Date precision
- Day
- Location
- Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Observer
- JB
- Measurements and units
- Count: 1; estimated age: 3–4 years; estimated height: >10 m.
- The tree is beginning to produce. The exact date of its first flower or fruit was not given. This report updates the collection; it does not establish annual yield or a measured growth rate.
Record sources 21
Sources and origins
Breadfruit Agroforestry Guide
- Author or institution
- C. Elevitch & D. Ragone
- Publication year
- 2018
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Development of a Probiotic Beverage Using Breadfruit Flour As a Substrate
- Author or institution
- Y. Gao et al.
- Publication year
- 2019
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Breadfruit botany — NTBG
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh’s 1791–93 journey
- Author or institution
- Northwestern University
- Publication year
- 2023
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Breadfruit growing regions — NTBG
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Breadfruit fermentation practices in Oceania
- Author or institution
- Nancy J. Pollock
- Publication year
- 1984
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
How to dry and grind breadfruit into flour
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Publication year
- 2015
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Conservation and use of breadfruit: Ghanaian perspective
- Author or institution
- D. K. Gamedoagbao & S. O. Bennett-Lartey
- Publication year
- 2007
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Limitations
Abstract consulted. Historical national account, not a drought-tolerance trial at Odo.
When to harvest — NTBG
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Breadfruit history — NTBG
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Breadfruit horticulture — NTBG
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Artocarpus altilis — Plants of the World Online
- Author or institution
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
The Gift of Kū
- Author or institution
- University of Hawaiʻi · STEMS²
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Breadfruit nutrition — NTBG
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
JB — Odo Valley · 26 September 2026
- Author or institution
- JB
- Publication year
- 2026
- Type
- Reported observation
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Limitations
One breadfruit and one local breadnut, each approximately 3–4 years old and over 10 m tall; beginning to produce. Age and height are reported estimates, not independently measured.
Breadfruit in the Pacific Islands, its domestication and origins of cultivars
- Author or institution
- L. Thomson et al.
- Publication year
- 2023
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Limitations
Synthesis proposing a reinterpretation of domestication; presented as a scientific debate.
Complex origins of breadfruit
- Author or institution
- N. Zerega, D. Ragone & T. Motley
- Publication year
- 2004
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Limitations
Historical genetic model; does not by itself settle more recent debates about origins.
Breadfruit Production Guide
- Author or institution
- C. Elevitch, D. Ragone & I. Cole
- Publication year
- 2014
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Mosquito-biting deterrent fatty acids from male breadfruit inflorescences
- Author or institution
- A. M. P. Jones et al. · USDA ARS
- Publication year
- 2012
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Limitations
Laboratory tests on Aedes aegypti; not validation of malaria protection in Ghana.
Breadfruit — Produce Facts
- Author or institution
- UC Davis Postharvest Research and Extension Center
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Traditional uses — NTBG
- Author or institution
- Breadfruit Institute, NTBG
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26