International breadfruit conference in Apia

There are not many plants with more uses than the breadfruit.

Ma'afala Source: SBS, Samoan Program

It was for breadfruit saplings from Tahiti that brought Captain Bligh and the ship Bounty to the Pacific Islands. Breadfruit in its many varieties has sustained Pacific Islands and other tropical populations for centuries.  The fruit is delicious baked, boiled, mashed, and now a source of gluten-free flour.  The timber is also ideal for making furniture or building houses, and the leaves for wrapping fish and taro leaves.  It was not a mutiny that happened in Apia this week but an international conference on the humble but most useful of plants, the 'Ulu or Breadfruit.