Akee
Blighia sapida
Summary 7
The ackee, also known as achee, akee apple or akee (Blighia sapida) is a member of the Sapindaceae (soapberry family), native to tropical West Africa in Cameroon, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
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- (c) Karen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenblixen/5019093321/
- (c) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/iita-media-library/8272688676/
- (c) Nova, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Owoce_Aka.jpg
- English:, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomological_Watercolor_POM00007429.jpg
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- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blighia_sapida
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- African Plants - a photo guide
- Atlas of Living Australia
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- eFloras.org
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- USDA PLANTS database
- World Flora Online
