Breadfruit Bligh
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National Tropical Botanic Garden - Breadfruit Collection
I've got to acknowledge that breadfruits aren't a fruit I select also much experience with, together with realistically most of what I could seat together hither is already going to live on that page, alone written yesteryear people who know much, much more.
I did select a grizzled quondam banana worker, shy a few fingers, elbow grease to sell me 1 on a roadside exterior of Cauhita, Costa Rica. I had a goodness fourth dimension talking to him, alternating betwixt my broken Castilian together with his barely intelligible (to me) Caribbean Area English. What I genuinely wanted was 1 of his bananas (he did eventually sell me one), but he genuinely wanted to sell that breadfruit. He'd select sold it cheap, too, together with I select to confess that I was curious, but I wasn't precisely sure what I was going to produce alongside a raw breadfruit nearly the size of a volleyball, alongside no knife, no room inward my bag, together with at that point, non fifty-fifty a identify to sleep. So I turned it down, assuming I'd run across breadfruit in 1 trial to a greater extent than inward my travels there. But I didn't.
It's difficult to tell what variety it was--I for sure am non an practiced on breadfruit cultivars--but according to my notes at the time, of those listed on the Selected Varieties page, it most closely resembled 'White', which would at to the lowest degree live geographically consistent.
Which does select upward an interesting intersection of history together with the breadfruit. Although many people are familiar alongside the storey of the mutiny on the Bounty, most seem to forget the whole argue behind the H.M.S. Bounty's mission, namely to collect breadfruit trees inward the Society Islands, for purpose every bit a root of high unloosen energy nutrient for slaves inward the Caribbean Area (you tin read Bligh's orders here). (They were also supposed to choice upward mangosteens to supervene upon whatever breadfruit trees that died). Captain Bligh's zeal for his mission was such that his crew took to calling him "Breadfruit Bligh". The crew collected 1,015 plants inward Tahiti together with laid off on their provide voyage, but the crew had go a flake also attached to Tahiti, together with iii weeks after they rose upward inward their famous mutiny, pitched the plants overboard, together with headed dorsum to Tahiti.
You've got to laissez passer Bligh credit, though. He took the whole breadfruit affair pretty darn seriously. I similar fruit—a lot, actually. But if my friends together with I headed out to fetch some, say, grapes, together with on the vogue home, my companions, say, laid me adrift inward an opened upward boat for 47 days, together with then the side yesteryear side fourth dimension it occurred to me that some grapes mightiness live good, I intend I mightiness create upward one's hear that, y'all know what, peradventure I didn't need grapes after all. Not our human being Bligh. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twelvemonth together with a one-half after finally making his vogue dorsum to England, he laid canvas again, on the H.M.S. Providence, in 1 trial once to a greater extent than inward search of breadfruit. This fourth dimension he successfully retrieved 2,126 breadfruit trees (one of which is believed to select been the root of the 'White' cultivar inward the Caribbean). He also brought dorsum a vast collection of other plants, the names of many of which I can't fifty-fifty recognize. I've transcribed 1 such list, accompanied yesteryear my guesses every bit to the plants indicated. Please experience costless to brand suggestions! (some of this may live archaic names, some may live obscure plants):
An impressive collection, fifty-fifty inward an historic menses when trucking industrial plant life species only about the planet was well-nigh frighteningly common. Bligh established (or at to the lowest degree attempted to establish) these species inward St. Helena, St. Vincent, together with inward Jamaica. While inward Jamaica, he also brought dorsum to England samples of akee, which had been previously transported to the Carribbean from West Africa, together with introduced it to the scientific community. The scientific name, Blighia sapida, honors the captain.
Still, despite all this, Bligh remains best known for his mutinous crew. And, amazingly, though Bligh does non look to select been an specially harsh captain for his time, the Bounty was non the lastly mutiny nether his command. His crew revolted during the Spithead together with Nore mutinies every bit good (these were large movements, together with affected multiple ships together with captains, though), together with then, every bit Governor of New South Wales, he was deposed inward an uprising called "the Rum Rebellion".
Bligh died inward London inward 1817, having crossed the basis several times, served on dozens of ships, together with collected dozens of industrial plant life species. His tombstone lists the introduction of the breadfruit to the West Indies every bit 1 of his accomplishments, together with the monument itself is crowned yesteryear a rock breadfruit.
(photos yesteryear Miranda Hodgson, used nether the price of the Creative Commons License).
National Tropical Botanic Garden - Breadfruit Collection
I've got to acknowledge that breadfruits aren't a fruit I select also much experience with, together with realistically most of what I could seat together hither is already going to live on that page, alone written yesteryear people who know much, much more.
I did select a grizzled quondam banana worker, shy a few fingers, elbow grease to sell me 1 on a roadside exterior of Cauhita, Costa Rica. I had a goodness fourth dimension talking to him, alternating betwixt my broken Castilian together with his barely intelligible (to me) Caribbean Area English. What I genuinely wanted was 1 of his bananas (he did eventually sell me one), but he genuinely wanted to sell that breadfruit. He'd select sold it cheap, too, together with I select to confess that I was curious, but I wasn't precisely sure what I was going to produce alongside a raw breadfruit nearly the size of a volleyball, alongside no knife, no room inward my bag, together with at that point, non fifty-fifty a identify to sleep. So I turned it down, assuming I'd run across breadfruit in 1 trial to a greater extent than inward my travels there. But I didn't.
It's difficult to tell what variety it was--I for sure am non an practiced on breadfruit cultivars--but according to my notes at the time, of those listed on the Selected Varieties page, it most closely resembled 'White', which would at to the lowest degree live geographically consistent.
Which does select upward an interesting intersection of history together with the breadfruit. Although many people are familiar alongside the storey of the mutiny on the Bounty, most seem to forget the whole argue behind the H.M.S. Bounty's mission, namely to collect breadfruit trees inward the Society Islands, for purpose every bit a root of high unloosen energy nutrient for slaves inward the Caribbean Area (you tin read Bligh's orders here). (They were also supposed to choice upward mangosteens to supervene upon whatever breadfruit trees that died). Captain Bligh's zeal for his mission was such that his crew took to calling him "Breadfruit Bligh". The crew collected 1,015 plants inward Tahiti together with laid off on their provide voyage, but the crew had go a flake also attached to Tahiti, together with iii weeks after they rose upward inward their famous mutiny, pitched the plants overboard, together with headed dorsum to Tahiti.
You've got to laissez passer Bligh credit, though. He took the whole breadfruit affair pretty darn seriously. I similar fruit—a lot, actually. But if my friends together with I headed out to fetch some, say, grapes, together with on the vogue home, my companions, say, laid me adrift inward an opened upward boat for 47 days, together with then the side yesteryear side fourth dimension it occurred to me that some grapes mightiness live good, I intend I mightiness create upward one's hear that, y'all know what, peradventure I didn't need grapes after all. Not our human being Bligh. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twelvemonth together with a one-half after finally making his vogue dorsum to England, he laid canvas again, on the H.M.S. Providence, in 1 trial once to a greater extent than inward search of breadfruit. This fourth dimension he successfully retrieved 2,126 breadfruit trees (one of which is believed to select been the root of the 'White' cultivar inward the Caribbean). He also brought dorsum a vast collection of other plants, the names of many of which I can't fifty-fifty recognize. I've transcribed 1 such list, accompanied yesteryear my guesses every bit to the plants indicated. Please experience costless to brand suggestions! (some of this may live archaic names, some may live obscure plants):
| TAHITI | |
| Breadfruit | Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) |
| Rattah | Tahitian Chestnut (Inocarpus edulis)? |
| Ay'ah | ? |
| Av'vee or Vee | Vee Tree, ambarella, Otaheite apple tree (Spondias dulcis) |
| Oraiah | "a rattling superior sort of plantain" (Musa paradisiaca) |
| Pee'ah | ? |
| Vai'hee | ? |
| Cocoa Nut | Coconut (Cocos nucifera) |
| Ettow | Geiger Tree (Cordia sebestena) |
| Mattee | Dye fig(Ficus tinctoria) |
| POSSESSION ISLAND, NEW GUINEA | |
| Sao, or Sow | "a sort of plum" |
| TIMOR | |
| Breadfruit, Otaheite (Taihiti) Kind | Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) |
| Breadfruit, which bears feed | ? |
| Mango | Mango (Mangifera sp.) |
| Iamblang | Jambul (Syzygium cumini) |
| Iambo Iremavah | ? |
| Iambo Ma'ree | ? |
| Blimbing | Bilimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi) |
| Cheramailah | Cherimoya? If so, what's it doing inward Timor? |
| Karambola | Starfruit, Carambola (Averrhoa carambola) |
| Nonefang, or Lemon China | Limeberry (Triphasia trifolia) |
| Cosambee | ? |
| Nanka | Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) |
| Namnam | (Cynometra cauliflora) |
| Pomegranates | Pomegranates (Punica granatum) |
| Seeree boah, or Long Pepper | (Piper longum?) |
| Seeree down | ? |
| Bintaloo | ? |
| Dangreedah | ? |
| Bugahnah Kanangah | Ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata) |
| Iattee, or Tickwood | ? |
| ST. HELENA | |
| Plantain | Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) |
| China Orange | Sweet orangish (Citrus sinensis) |
| Dwarf Peach | Peach (Prunus persica) |
| Almonds | Almonds (Prunus dulcis |
| Nutmeg from St. Vincent's | Nutmeg (Myristica sp., in all likelihood fragrans) |
| Coffee | Coffee (Coffea sp.) |
| Gwavah | Guava (Psidium sp.) |
| Poorah'ow | Coconut (Cocos nucifera) |
An impressive collection, fifty-fifty inward an historic menses when trucking industrial plant life species only about the planet was well-nigh frighteningly common. Bligh established (or at to the lowest degree attempted to establish) these species inward St. Helena, St. Vincent, together with inward Jamaica. While inward Jamaica, he also brought dorsum to England samples of akee, which had been previously transported to the Carribbean from West Africa, together with introduced it to the scientific community. The scientific name, Blighia sapida, honors the captain.
Still, despite all this, Bligh remains best known for his mutinous crew. And, amazingly, though Bligh does non look to select been an specially harsh captain for his time, the Bounty was non the lastly mutiny nether his command. His crew revolted during the Spithead together with Nore mutinies every bit good (these were large movements, together with affected multiple ships together with captains, though), together with then, every bit Governor of New South Wales, he was deposed inward an uprising called "the Rum Rebellion".
Bligh died inward London inward 1817, having crossed the basis several times, served on dozens of ships, together with collected dozens of industrial plant life species. His tombstone lists the introduction of the breadfruit to the West Indies every bit 1 of his accomplishments, together with the monument itself is crowned yesteryear a rock breadfruit.
(photos yesteryear Miranda Hodgson, used nether the price of the Creative Commons License).
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