Skip to main content
ARS Home » Office of Communications » Images » Photos » Nov12 » d2695-1


300 dpi: (d2695-1.jpg)
640 pixels wide: (d2695-1.jpg)

Image Number D2695-1

Chemist Charles Cantrell examines a burning dried male inflorescence from the breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis). People in Oceania routinely burned this plant to repel biting insects such as mosquitoes.

 

Photo by Peggy Greb.





Please visit our Image Gallery