ackee
n.-- A yellow, fleshy vegetable that constitutes one of the favorite foods of Jamaica, where it's cooked with sated cod. The ackee so much resembles scrambled eggs that the dish is most often served for breakfast. The edible part surrounds the seeds in the fruit of a tree imported to the island from Africa. The fruit itself, and the seeds, are poisonous. The fruit suddenly breaks open when ripe, and when the seed coats are exposed to light the poison dissipates--although not in the seeds themselves, nor in the rest of the fruits. Every year, a certain number of people die in Jamaica after eating underripe ackee. I've had it a couple of times. It not only looks like eggs, but sort of tastes like them.
