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[[File:Map Blighia sapida.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wild and planted)]][[File:Linedrawing Blighia sapida.gif|thumb|1, part of twig with leaf and inflorescence; 2, male flower; 3, female flower; 4, dehisced fruit showing seeds. Source: Flore analytique du Bénin]][[File:Blighia sapida 627 TIQUET.jpg|thumb|tree]][[File:Blighia sapida jeune fruits Korhogo D LOUPPE.jpg|thumb|tree]][[File:Blighia sapida écorce P POILECOT.jpg|thumb|slash]][[File:Blighia sapida 631 TIQUET Inflorescences.jpg|thumb|inflorescences]][[File:Blighia sapida 628 TIQUET Feuille.jpg|thumb|leave]][[File:Blighia sapida feuilles fruits 2 P POILECOT.jpg|thumb|leaves and fruits]][[File:Blighia sapida feuilles fruits 3 P POILECOT.jpg|thumb|leaves and fruits]][[File:Blighia sapida 629 TIQUET Fruits.jpg|thumb|fruits]][[File:Blighia sapida fruits 2 D LOUPPE.jpg|thumb|fruits]][[File:Blighia sapida 2f D LOUPPE.jpg|thumb|fruits]][[File:Blighia sapida opened fruits Toptropical.jpg|thumb|opened fruit]][[File:blighia sapida 630 TIQUET Graine avec arille.jpg|thumb|opened fruit]][[File:Blighia sapida 9 ans kgo D LOUPPE.jpg|thumb|plantation of 9 years]][[File:Blighia sapida Lataha 11 ans D LOUPPE.jpg|thumb|plantation of 11 years]][[File:Blighia sapida tls J. Ilic Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in tangential section]][[File:Blighia sapida xs J. Ilic Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]]<big>''[[Blighia sapida]]'' K.D.Koenig</big>
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Blighia sapida'' (PROTA)}}
:Protologue: Ann. Bot. 2: 571, t. 16–17 (1806).
:Family: Sapindaceae
:Chromosome number: 2''n'' = 32
== Vernacular names ==
*Ackee, akee, akee apple, savory akee tree (En). *Aki, fisanier, blighia savoureuse, fausse anacarde, pommier d’aki, arbre fricassé (Fr). *Castanheiro de Africa, castanha de Africa, huevo vegetal castanha (Po).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Usually evergreen, dioecious, small to medium-sized tree up to 25(–30) m tall; bole branchless for up to 15 m and straight and cylindrical, but often much shorter and crooked or twisted, up to 80(–120) cm in diameter, often with small buttresses; bark surface usually smooth but with lenticels in horizontal lines, grey to pale brown, inner bark granular, yellow to brown or pinkish, often mottled orange; crown dense and rounded; young twigs grooved, yellow-orange hairy, becoming glabrous. *Leaves alternate, paripinnately compound with 3–5 pairs of leaflets; stipules absent; petiole 0.5–2.5 cm long, slightly winged, rachis up to 20 cm long; petiolules stout, up to 6 mm long; leaflets opposite, elliptical to obovate, 5–15 cm × 3.5–8 cm, lowest pair smallest, cuneate to rounded at base, rounded to short-acuminate at apex, margins entire or slightly wavy, papery or thinly leathery, dark green, slightly hairy below, pinnately veined with 8–14 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence an axillary, slender false raceme up to 20 cm long, hairy. *Flowers probably functionally unisexual, regular, 5-merous, greenish white to greenish yellow, sweet-scented; pedicel up to 6 mm long, elongating up to 10 mm in fruit; calyx with tube about as long as lobes, 2–3 mm long; petals free, rhomboid, 3–4 mm long, hairy, with a 2-lobed scale on the inner face; stamens 6–10, free, filaments up to 6 mm long, hairy in lower part; ovary superior, hairy, usually 3-lobed and 3-celled, style short; male flowers with rudimentary ovary, female flowers with reduced stamens. *Fruit an obovoid to pear-shaped capsule 3.5–10 cm × 3–5 cm, slightly 3-lobed, yellow to red when ripe, glabrous, dehiscing with 3 woody valves hairy inside, usually 3-seeded. *Seeds ovoid, 2–2.5 cm long, glossy black, with cream-coloured to yellow cup-shaped aril up to 2 cm long at base. *Seedling with hypogeal germination; epicotyl c. 15 cm long, hairy; first 2 leaves opposite, with 3 elliptical or obovate leaflets up to 10 cm × 3.5 cm.
== Other botanical information ==
Wood-anatomical description (IAWA hardwood codes):
*Growth rings: 2: growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent. *Vessels: 5: wood diffuse-porous; 13: simple perforation plates; 22: intervessel pits alternate; 23: shape of alternate pits polygonal; 25: intervessel pits small (4–7 μm); 30: vessel-ray pits with distinct borders; similar to intervessel pits in size and shape throughout the ray cell; (36: helical thickenings in vessel elements present); (37: helical thickenings throughout body of vessel element); (38: helical thickenings only in vessel element tails); 42: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100–200 μm; 46: <font size="1" ≤ 5 vessels per square millimetre="" ; (47: 5–20 vessels="" per square="" gums="" millimetre); 58: gum and other="" deposits="" in="" heartwood="" vessels.="" tracheids="" *Tracheids and="" fibres:="" 61 : fibres with="" simple="" to minutely="" bordered="" pits="" ; 65: septate="" fibres present="" ; (66: non-septate="" fibres present); 69: fibres thin-="" to="" thick-walled="" ; (70: fibres="" very="" axial="" thick-walled).*Axial parenchyma:="" 75: axial parenchyma absent="" or="" extremely="" rare="" ; 78: axial parenchyma scanty="" paratracheal="" ; 92: four="" (3-4) cells per="" parenchyma="" strand.="" rays*Rays:="" 97: ray width="" 1-3 cells="" ; 104: all="" ray="" cells procumbent="">; 116 : ≥</font> 12 rays per mm. *Mineral inclusions: 136: prismatic crystals present; 138: prismatic crystals in procumbent ray cells.
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== Growth and development ==
== Author(s) ==
* A. Asamoah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
* C. Antwi-Bosiako, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
* CK. AntwiFrimpong-BosiakoMensah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
* A. Atta-Boateng, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
* KC. Frimpong-MensahS. Montes, World Agroforestry Centre, Bamako, Mali
== Correct citation of this article ==
Asamoah, A., Antwi-Bosiako, C., Frimpong-Mensah, K., Atta-Boateng, A., Montes, C.S. & Louppe, D., 2010. '''Blighia sapida''' K.D.Koenig. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Louppe, D. & Oteng-Amoako, A.A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.
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