Bread is always made of flour, but in some islands in the South Pacific, the "bread" they eat is picked from trees. This kind of tree is called "bread tree" Bread tree is a big evergreen tree, belonging to Moraceae. General height 10 meters, up to 40-60 meters. The trunk is thick, the branches and leaves are lush, and the leaves are big and beautiful, with three colors. Local residents use it to weave beautiful and lightweight hats. Bread trees are monoecious, with female flowers integrated into spheres and male flowers integrated into spikes. It can bear fruit on its branches, trunk and roots. Each fruit is a cluster of flowers and fruits formed by an inflorescence, with different sizes, such as a football and a citrus, and the maximum weight can reach 20 kg. The fruiting period of bread trees is very long, from the first year 1 1 month to the next July, and 1 year can be harvested three times. The seedless fruit is an excellent variety with full flesh and sweet taste. Each tree can bear breadfruit for sixty or seventy years. Bread fruit is rich in nutrition, containing a lot of starch, vitamins A and B and a small amount of protein and fat. People pick ripe breadfruit from the tree and bake it on the fire until it is yellow, so it can be eaten. This kind of baked breadfruit is soft and delicious, sour and sweet, and its flavor is similar to bread. Bread fruit can also be used to make jam and wine. Bread fruit is an indispensable woody food for local residents, and it is planted in front of and behind every household's house. The fruit of a bread tree can feed one or two people. Bread trees are widely distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Africa, Guangdong, Taiwan Province and other provinces in China.
On the arid savanna in Africa, there is a strange-shaped tree-baobab.
It is not only a food source for animals, but also the thickest medicinal tree in the world.
Monkeys love to eat its fruit.
The scientific name of baobab tree is Bobbab tree, also known as Maomu, and it is also called baobab tree or sour fruit tree, which is large.
Deciduous trees. The baobab tree has a huge crown and strange branches, which look like roots. From a distance, it looks like a fall.
Fall headlong. " Its trunk is very thick, the thickest diameter can reach 12 meter, and it takes 40 people to hold hands to circle it.
But it is not tall, only 10 meters. Therefore, the whole tree looks like a beer barrel with a big belly. far and away
Looking at it, it seems that the tree does not grow on the ground, but is inserted in a vase with a big belly, so it is also called "bottle tree"
The baobab tree has a spectacular tree shape, and its fruit is huge like a football, with many sweet juices. It is a monkey, an orangutan and an elephant.
Waiting for animals' favorite delicacies. When its fruit is ripe, monkeys come in droves and climb the tree to pick the fruit.
Children eat, so it is also called "baobab tree".