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Garcinia mangostana - Fruit in cross-section - Click to enlarge!

Fruit in cross-section; Bayawan, Negros Oriental, Philippines; 2/2010 © Evren Sinar

Garcinia mangostana - Unripe fruit - Click to enlarge!

Unripe fruit; Butuan, Mindanao, Philippines; 12/2009 © Evren Sinar

Garcinia mangostana - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Butuan, Mindanao, Philippines; 12/2009 © Evren Sinar

Garcinia mangostana - Lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaf; Butuan, Mindanao, Philippines; 12/2009 © Evren Sinar

Garcinia mangostana - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Butuan, Mindanao, Philippines; 12/2009 © Evren Sinar

Dataset

Identifier: 1212
Date of entry: 15.01.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Mangosteen

German: Mangostane

Mandarin: 莽吉柿 (mang ji shi)

Portuguese: Mangostão, Mangustin

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Theales (15)

        Family: Clusiaceae (12)(family description)

          Genus: Garcinia (1)

            Epithet: mangostana L. (1)

mangostana => malay, possibly derived from 'manggis' - sweet

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: tree

Flower colour: pink, yellow

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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