Record #00417Nature archive
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) produces exceptionally heavy tree-borne fruits. The currently documented heaviest specimen weighs 54.43 kg, grown by Hugh Forthman in Homestead, Florida, USA, and verified on 22 August 2024.
Current Record
54.43kg
Current record value
The jackfruit tree belongs to the mulberry family, Moraceae. Its massive multiple fruits develop along the trunk and major branches, unlike vine-borne produce such as giant pumpkins, making tree-borne fruit mass a distinct comparison.
The present certified specimen was grown by Hugh Forthman on a family farm in Homestead, Florida. It weighed 54.43 kg, verified on 22 August 2024, replacing an earlier record of 42.72 kg rather than revising the mass of that earlier fruit.
Older registry materials report a 42.72-kg specimen verified on 23 June 2016. The current entry uses the 2024 result; the former figure is preserved as historical context only, since this create-candidate interface does not expose separate historical-entry creation.
The record conclusion has sufficient verification support.
Basis: direct confirmation by an authority
The current Guinness Heaviest jackfruit registry page explicitly names Hugh Forthman, Homestead, Florida, 54.43 kg and 22 August 2024. An older Guinness Largest tree-borne fruit page documents a 42.72-kg jackfruit verified on 23 June 2016, which should not be retained as the current value. The record-create Candidate API exposes only currentEntry, so the previous result is documented in narrative rather than as an invented historical entry.
The inspected older registry excerpt does not support assigning the 42.72-kg specimen a particular farm or grower; do not transfer the previous candidate's Hawaii claim into a historical entry. The 2024 record is locatable to Homestead city, but no verified farm coordinates are supplied.
Current Entry identifies the current entry in this archive; it does not establish that the record is still held today.
The record value on this page is organized from the public sources above. Measurement methods may differ; JiLuDB follows the unified method described for each entry.
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