Origin: India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia ~Gourka~ Garcinia Xanthochymus Family: Guttiferae former name="garcinia_dulcis" AKA: Yellow Mangosteen, Himalayan Garcinia, false Mangosteen, Garcinia tinctoria, Gamboge
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	Garcinia Xanthochymus    Garcinia xanthochymus , Clusiaceae, Gourka. Growth Habits: Tree up to 20 feet tall (6 m) Sun Exposure: Full sun to light shade Watering Needs: Regular water Propagation: Seeds, air layering USDA Zone: 10
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Garcinia (Laurence Garcin, who lived and collected in India, and wrote in the eighteenth century) so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.       A cone-shaped tree native to India to Malaya, with drooping branches and smooth-skinned, edible, yellow (when ripe)  fruit to 3 inches in diameter.   The sour pulp of the fruit is yellow and juicy.  Unripe fruits provide an inferior gamboge paint.  The bark yields a black dye used for cotton.        A medium-size tree with an upright growth habit and a cone-shaped canopy. The leaves are shiny green, reddish when young, and make a lovely ornamental. The fruit is yellow, thin-skinned and smooth. The soft yellow flesh has a butter-like consistency and pleasant acid flavor. It's fruit can be eaten fresh, served in sherbets or made into fruit paste or butter. Unripe fruit yields a "Gamboge paint"         This genus, Guttiferae, includes the Mangosteen, which is declared by some connoisseurs to be one of the most luscious of all tropical fruits; aka the Gamboge tree, whose resinous juice yields a well-known pigment and purgative.    Garcinia xanthochymus is an excellent landscape tree of slow growth with attractive broad leaves. Fruits are brilliantly colored outside with smooth orange when ripe.        Garcinia is a polymorphous genus of upward of 150 species in the tropics of Asia, Africa and Polynesia. These species are glabrous trees, usually with a yellow juice: leaves; evergreen, opposite or ternate, simple, often thick: flowers; solitary or fascicled, polygamous or dioecious; sepals and petals 4; many stamens in male flowers., 2- or 3-delphous female flowers with staminodia; ovary 2- to many-celled, with sessile stigma and solitary ovule in each cell.
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Garcinia xanthochymus occurs in the wild, growing in the hills of South India and can also be found widely distributed in the hill forests of the Eastern Himalayas and hence the common name ‘Himalayan Garcinia‘. Also known as Garcinia tinctoria, Garcinia xanthochymus is commonly referred via an assortment of names such as the Eggtree, gamboge tree, sour mangosteen, Himalayan garcinia and false mangosteen.	Garcinia xanthochymus is a close relative of the tree that bears the common edible mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) which has been crowned the ‘Queen’ of tropical fruits. This tree grows very vigorously and can adapt to a variety of soil types. Garcinia xanthochymus is a heavy bearer and sometimes even bears two crops a year. The tree comes into bearing after 4-5 years. It prefers sunny locations.
This Garcinia species is rather bushy and adopts a rather attractive, pyramidal growth habit that can be likened to a Christmas tree. Its large leaves are linear in shape, dark green, thick and leathery in texture and they hand down from the stiff branches that extend outwards in all directions from the main trunk. It is a slow-growing tree like many other Garcinia species and can attain a height of 10 m. Like other species in the same genus, male and female flowers usually occur on separate plants. Garcinia xanthochymus is observed to produce both male flowers and bisexual (hermaphrodite) flowers in clusters. The latter can be distinguished by their longer longer axils. The bisexual flowers apparently self-pollinate so that fruits can form.
	Fruits produced by Garcinia xanthochymus are green when young and they turn bright yellow when ripe. They look extremely tempting and are often reported to have a juicy pulp with a pleasant acid flavor and can be eaten out of hand. Inside each fruit, there are two brown, oval-shaped seeds. The fruit has a curved pointed end which makes it look like an inverted tear-drop. Like the common mangosteen, one can find persistent sepals and staminal bundles even on a mature, ripe fruit of Garcinia xanthochymus.
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