The Domestication of Fruit and Nut Tree Species in Vanuatu, Oceania - Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics: Domestication, Utilization and Commercialization - page 126

Table 7.2. Continued

Species Family Foraged Protected Cultivated

Pandanus foveolatus Kanehira Pandanaceae

Pandanus julianettii Martelli Pandanaceae

Pandanus tectorius Soland. ex Balf. f. Pandanaceae

Pangium edule Warburg Flacourtiaceae

Pittosporum pullifolium Burkill Pittosporaceae

Pouteria endlicheri (Montrouz) Baehni Sapotaceae

Pouteria linggensis (Burck) Baehni Sapotaceae

Pouteria maclayana (F. Muell.) Baehni Sapotaceae

Scleropyrum aurantiacum Pilge Santalaceae

Semecarpus atra Vieillard Anacardiaceae

Sleumerodendron austro-caledonicum
(Brongn. & Gris) Virot Proteceae

Sloanea tieghemmii (F. Muell.) A.C. Smith Asclepiadaceae

Sterculia foetida L. Sterculiaceae

Sterculia schumanniana Milbraed Sterculiacea

Sterculia vitiensis Seemann Sterculiaceae

Terminalia catappa L. Combretaceae

Terminalia copelandii Elmer Combretaceae

Terminalia impediens Coode Combretaceae

Terminalia kaernbachii Warburg Combretaceae

Terminalia litoralis Panch. ex Guillaumin Combretaceae

Terminalia samoensis Rechinger Combretaceae

Terminalia sepicana Diels Combretaceae

Sources: Smith, 1981; Whistler, 1984; French, 1986; Whitmore, 1986; Wheatley, 1992;
Walter and Sam, 1999.

them in areas where they do not exist in order to ease collection, for example
near gardens, thus extending their area of distribution and increasing the
number of selected individuals within that area.

7.2.3 Cultivated species

Certain species are truly and regularly cultivated and they have a wide
geographical distribution. These are often staple foods for Oceanians and their
distribution is the result of early migrations on voyaging canoes. They are
mostly coastal species and are found around homesteads. Through millennia of
cultivation, genotypes have been improved by following a continuous selection
process. This is the case for the breadfruit ( Artocarpus altilis ), well known for its
fruits, but also foraged, protected and cultivated for its nuts, the seeds of the
fruits, in northern Melanesia and Papua New Guinea. It is also the case for the
fruits of Gnetum gnemon , Morinda citrifolia , Pometia pinnata , Spondias
cytherea and Syzygium malaccense and the nuts of Barringtonia edulis , B.
novae-hiberniae , B. procera , Canarium harveyi , C. indicum , Inocarpus fagifer ,
Sterculia vitiensis and Terminalia catappa . Some of these species are foraged in