Ackee

Unripe ackee fruit, and the rind and seeds of ripe fruit, are never safe to eat because they can contain dangerous amounts of hypoglycin A.

The beautiful Akee (Blighia sapida), originally brought from the West Coast of Africa by slave ships, is now a common tree in the West Indies, and I noticed several fine specimens in Belize.

Delano and I are sprawled out under the ackee tree watching the black ants march from one rotten ackee pod to the next.

Ackee and saltfish is a traditional Jamaican dish.

The fleshy sacks that dangled down between his legs, like rotting ackees, wobbled.