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Artocarpus elasticus of the Mulberry Family (Moraceae) and commonly called terap nasi or terap,[2] is a rainforest tree of maritime and mainland Southeast Asia, growing up to 45 metres (150 ft) (occasionally as much as 214 feet (65 meters))[3] in height with a diameter at breast height of about 1 metre (3 ft). The juvenile trees are noteworthy for producing a rosette of enormous deeply lobed leaves similar in shape to those of the white oak (Quercus alba), but up to 2 metres (6 ft) long[4] by about 1.2 metres (4 ft) in width. The stipules are up to eight inches (twenty centimeters) long,[3] among the largest known. These leaves emerge from leaf buds as long as 18 centimetres (7 in).[5] The trees are dioecious (male and female flowers on separate trees).[5] It produces a fruit like a small breadfruit. The male capitulae produce clouds of pollen, and pollenisation is apparently by wind.
| Artocarpus elasticus | |
|---|---|
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| Leaves and fruit, Jogyakarta, Indonesia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Moraceae |
| Genus: | Artocarpus |
| Species: | A. elasticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Artocarpus elasticus | |
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