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|familia=Sapindaceae
|genus=Blighia
|genus=Blighia
|taxo_author=K.D.Koenig
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|Max ht box=20
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|features=evergreen
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'''''Blighia''''' is a [[genus]] of four [[species]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[Sapindus|soapberry]] family, [[Sapindaceae]], native to [[Tropics|tropical]] [[Africa]] from [[Guinea]] east to [[Kenya]]. The [[fruit]] is partly edible, with the [[Ackee]] (''B. sapida'') being grown commercially for fruit production. The genus is named for Captain [[William Bligh]] (formerly of the [[HMS Bounty|HMS ''Bounty'']]), who brought samples back to England.
The species are [[evergreen]] [[tree]]s growing to 10–20 m tall, with [[pinnate]] [[leaf|leaves]]. The [[flower]]s are produced in small [[panicle]]s. The [[fruit]] is an oval [[Capsule (fruit)|capsule]] 4–8 cm long containing three [[seed]]s, each surrounded by an edible fleshy yellow aril, and a thick, leathery orange or red skin; the fruit apart from the aril is very poisonous.
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Blighia (W. Bligh, British mariner, who wrote on a journey in the South Seas, 1792). Sapindaceae. Trees and shrubs with pinnately compound Lvs. and axillary, racemose fls.; differs from Cupania in having a deeply cut calyx (rather than separate sepals) with the parts only slightly imbricate, and also in the fr.—One species in Guinea, now naturalized in the W. Indies, and yielding the akee, a 3-parted fr. with edible red aril that is much improved by cooking. The fls. are so fragrant as to deserve distilling. The tree reaches a height of 30 ft., and is cult. in Jamaica to an altitude of only 3,000 ft., but can endure slight frost. It is also cult, in S. Fla.
Blighia (W. Bligh, British mariner, who wrote on a journey in the South Seas, 1792). Sapindaceae. Trees and shrubs with pinnately compound Lvs. and axillary, racemose fls.; differs from Cupania in having a deeply cut calyx (rather than separate sepals) with the parts only slightly imbricate, and also in the fr.—One species in Guinea, now naturalized in the W. Indies, and yielding the akee, a 3-parted fr. with edible red aril that is much improved by cooking. The fls. are so fragrant as to deserve distilling. The tree reaches a height of 30 ft., and is cult. in Jamaica to an altitude of only 3,000 ft., but can endure slight frost. It is also cult, in S. Fla.
==Varieties==
==Species==
;Selected species
*''[[Ackee|Blighia sapida]]'' - Ackee
*''[[Blighia unijugata]]''
*''[[Blighia welwitschii]]''
==Gallery==
==Gallery==