The size of a small breadfruit, the fruit has a lime-green skin covered with eyes like a potato's.

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Renowned American choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham later bought the property, and in the 1970s, built a chic ecological resort among the mahogany and breadfruit trees.

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Throughout the year, most hotels have Tahitian shows and feasts of fei (cooked banana), uru (breadfruit) and poe (a fruit and tapioca dessert served with coconut milk) at least once a week.

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Breadfruit plants would be dug up in Tahiti-he'd tasted the strange fruit when a native had traded one for a string of glass beads-and then be transported to the West Indies.

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The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.

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