From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit

Most of us are familiar with the curious yellow blobs of nangka (jack fruit) or chempedak - chewy, delectable layers of flesh surrounding large, no less edible seeds. But asked whether they have seen the flowers of a nangka or cempedak tree most people would answer with a perplexed but firm “no”. Ye...

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Main Authors: Jutta, Mariam, Zawawi, Abu Hanafiah
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description Most of us are familiar with the curious yellow blobs of nangka (jack fruit) or chempedak - chewy, delectable layers of flesh surrounding large, no less edible seeds. But asked whether they have seen the flowers of a nangka or cempedak tree most people would answer with a perplexed but firm “no”. Yet, flowers they have - members of the genus Artocarpus to which nangka, cempedak and sukun belong, bear male and female flowers on separate distinct inflorescences on the same tree.
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spelling upm-198872014-10-25T04:00:08Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19887/ From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit Jutta, Mariam Zawawi, Abu Hanafiah Most of us are familiar with the curious yellow blobs of nangka (jack fruit) or chempedak - chewy, delectable layers of flesh surrounding large, no less edible seeds. But asked whether they have seen the flowers of a nangka or cempedak tree most people would answer with a perplexed but firm “no”. Yet, flowers they have - members of the genus Artocarpus to which nangka, cempedak and sukun belong, bear male and female flowers on separate distinct inflorescences on the same tree. University Putra Malaysia 2012 Book Section NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19887/1/3_-_CHAPTER_3-4.pdf image/jpeg en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19887/2/Artocarpus_morphology.jpg image/jpeg en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19887/4/IMGP7104.JPG image/jpeg en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19887/5/IMGP7141.JPG image/jpeg en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19887/6/IMGP7146.JPG image/jpeg en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19887/7/IMGP7149.JPG Jutta, Mariam and Zawawi, Abu Hanafiah (2012) From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit. In: Nature's Yield and Wonders of Art (NYAWA)12: Fruits. University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, pp. 28-31. ISBN 9789673442980 Nature (Aesthetic) - Exhibitions Fruit - Exhibitions Art and Science - Exhibitions English
spellingShingle Nature (Aesthetic) - Exhibitions
Fruit - Exhibitions
Art and Science - Exhibitions
Jutta, Mariam
Zawawi, Abu Hanafiah
From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit
title From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit
title_full From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit
title_fullStr From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit
title_full_unstemmed From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit
title_short From ‘Micro’ flower to ‘Mega’ fruit
title_sort from ‘micro’ flower to ‘mega’ fruit
topic Nature (Aesthetic) - Exhibitions
Fruit - Exhibitions
Art and Science - Exhibitions
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