✿Moraceae · Artocarpus
Lakuch / Monkey Jack
Artocarpus lacucha
Tree
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Mizoram & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Artocarpus lacucha
- Genus
- Artocarpus
- Family
- Moraceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Cool valleys
- Distribution
- Tropical and sub-tropical Himalyas, India, Myanmar
- Found in India
- Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Mizoram, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Elliptic (widest at middle)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Lakuch itself; the rest are typical of the Moraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Catkin
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Moraceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Hindi
- लकुच Lakuch, लकूच Lakooch, लकूची Lakoochi
- Nepali
- बढहर Badhar
- Bengali
- Dephal, Dahu
- Tamil
- ilagusam, irappala, solaippakku
- Kannada
- ಎಸಳುಹುಳಿ Esuluhuli, ಲಕುಚ Lakucha, ಓಟೆಹುಳಿ Otehuli
- Malayalam
- chimpa, lakucham, pulinjakka
- Marathi
- बढहर Badhar, Kshudraphanas, phala
About Lakuch
A member of the Moraceae family, Monkey Jack (Artocarpus lacucha) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Mizoram and 13 other states. It grows in cool valleys. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Botanical family
Moraceae
Fig/Mulberry family
Lakuch belongs to the Moraceae family.
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