Garcinia costata

Hemsley ex King

Gelugur

ClusiaceaeFruit

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

Fruit - raw. Fruit a depressed globose berry, about 7 cm diameter, with many grooves, pale rose to crimson.

Where to Find It

A tropical plant. It grows in the hills in Malaysia.

Asia, Indochina, Malaysia*, SE Asia, Thailand*,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A tall tree. It grows 15-20 m tall. The trunk is 30-45 cm wide. The leaves are narrowly oval and 15-35 cm long by 9-15 cm wide. The flowers are of separate sexes. They are pale reddish-yellow. The fruit is a flattened berry 7 cm across. It has many grooves. They are red.

How to Grow

Propagation: Seed - we have no specific information on this species, but the seed of most members of the genus can be slow to germinate, even if sown fresh, often taking 6 months or more.

Wikipedia

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Garcinia costata is a species of flowering plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia.

Notes

There are about 300 Garcinia species.

Names & Synonyms

Mangkhut-pa

References (4)

Burkill, I.H., 1966, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol 1 (A-H) p 1065
Milow, P., et al, 2013, Malaysian species of plants with edible fruits or seeds and their evaluation. International Journal of Fruit Science. 14:1, 1-27
PROSEA (Plant Resources of South East Asia) handbook, Volume 2, 1991, Edible fruits and nuts.
World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew