"GOURKA" FRUIT Tree Himalayan Garcinia xanthochymus LIVE RARE Seedling Gamboge
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Origin: India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia
AKA: Yellow Mangosteen, Himalayan Garcinia, false Mangosteen, Garcinia tinctoria, Gamboge
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bare root seedlings with vigorous root systems * inches tall
with * leaves born and grown in Hawaii.
Garcinia xanthochymus, Clusiaceae,
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.
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
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.
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
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
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