ON THIS PLANT
Garcinia dulcis is a tropical fruit tree native to the Philippines, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, eastern Indonesia (Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and the Maluku Islands), and Papua New Guinea. It was domesticated early and spread inland into mainland Asia. It is commonly known as mundu or munu in Indonesia and Malaysia, baniti or taklang-anak in the Philippines, and maphuut or ma phut in Thailand.The tree is harvested from the wild as a local source of food, medicine or dyeing material and is sometimes cultivated for its fruit, which is occasionally sold locally. Garcinia dulcis is not grown commercially.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Garcinia
- Family
- Clusiaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Eggtree en Claudie mangosteen en Gourka en Baniti en Mundu en Rata en Yellow mangosteen
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