Blighia sapida

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Blighia sapida - widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Blighakee, akee treeackee, akee - red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripefruit tree - tree bearing edible fruitBlighia, genus Blighia - small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe