akee, akee tree, Blighia sapida

widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by Captain Bligh of HMS Bounty

• fruit tree — tree bearing edible fruit

• ackee, akee — red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe

• Blighia, genus Blighia — small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe