In 1793, Capt. William Bligh docked the HMS Providence in Kingstown in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a small island nation in the Caribbean Sea, with cargo filled with several hundred sapling ...

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry and jackfruit family. Image by Ashay - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0. Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering ...

Two thousand one hundred twenty-six breadfruit plants were carried from Tahiti, in pots and tubs stored both on deck and in the below-deck nursery. The expedition's gardener described depredations ...

Exactly 230 years after Capt. William Bligh's voyage on the HMS Providence, a plant biology team has traced five major lineages of Caribbean breadfruit back to that single introduction from Bligh's ...

Capt. William Bligh led a mission to introduce seedless breadfruit from Tahiti to the Caribbean islands as a cheap food to feed slaves on British plantations The expedition failed to inventory what ...