• Rimas is a large tree with milky sap, growing to 15 meters tall. Leaves are alternate, large, coriaceous, ovate to oblong, up to 50 centimeters long, deeply pinnate, and acuminate. Stipules are large and deciduous.

Breadfruit is one of the highest-yielding food plants, with a single tree producing up to 200 or more grapefruit-sized fruits per season, requiring limited care. In the South Pacific, the trees yield 50 to 150 fruits per year, usually round, oval or oblong weighing 0.25 to 6 kilograms (0.55 to 13 lb). [6]

Single-trunked tree with spreading, evergreen canopy. Monoecious with male and female flowers on the same tree and the male inflorescence appearing first. Male flow-ers are club-shaped, up to 5 cm (2 in) in diameter and 45 cm (18 in) long.

Trees of Artocarpus mariannensis and hybrid varieties can reach heights of 20 m or more. They tend to be more massive than breadfruit and breadnut, with large trunks 2 m wide at the base, extensive buttresses, and full, rounded canopies. They also tolerate salinity better.

Sep 10, 2006 · Very closely related to Kamansi (Seeded Breadfruit), Kolo or Rimas (Breadfruit) (Artocarpus altilis) is a native of the Pacific Islands. It featured prominently as the cargo of Captain William Bligh in the Bounty, as in “Mutiny on the Bounty.†The Bounty’s cargo of several thousand breadfruit seedlings was destined for the ...

It may grow into a large tree up to 30 m (100 ft) in height, though it is typically between 15 and 20 m (50 to 65 ft) tall with a straight trunk supporting a densely leafy rounded crown. The bark is grey-brown, smooth on young trees, with age becoming mottled, cracked and rough, and on wounding yields a sticky white latex, as do all parts of ...

Jan 29, 2009 · The difference between kamansi and rimas is that the former has seeds and the latter does not. The breadfruit is also suspected to have its roots in the Philippines and other Pacific islands. It has long been cultivated by Indonesians, Micronesians and Polynesians thus resulting to the emergence of good varieties through out history.

Mar 25, 2014 · Breadnut is a wild ancestor of the breadfruit indigenous to the lowlands of New Guinea, where it grows in flooded riverbanks, secondary and primary growth forest, and freshwater swamps, and in cultivation. It may also be indigenous to …

Artocarpus altilis is a multipurpose tree mainly grown for its fruits. The fruit is nutritious and a valuable staple food in most Pacific Islands. The mature fruits are eaten raw or cooked, steamed, fried, made into flour and baked, roasted or freeze-dried, or traditionally fermented.

Rimas or Breadfruit is called Ulu in Hawaii, Fruta de pan in Spanish, Kulur or Kelor, in Java or Malaysia. Rimas is eaten in the Philippines as breakfast or snack. It was first introduced in the Philippines in 1772 by a French Navigator named Sonnerat and brought to the French West Indies and spread to the Polynesias from there.