Sunday 26 February 2017

MY DESKTOP 1307 - MANGOSTEEN

The purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), colloquially known simply as mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. It grows mainly in Southeast Asia, southwest India and other tropical areas such as Puerto Rico and Florida, where the tree has been introduced. The tree grows from 6 to 25 m.

The fruit of the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple coloured rind (exocarp) when ripe. In each fruit, the fragrant edible flesh that surrounds each seed is botanically endocarp, i.e., the inner layer of the ovary. Seeds are almond-shaped and sized. The purple mangosteen belongs to the same genus as the other, less widely known, mangosteens, such as the button mangosteen (G. prainiana) or the charichuelo (G. madruno).

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4 comments:

  1. Never seen and never eaten...
    Have a good new week

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  2. What a unique looking fruit, I've never heard of them

    Thank you for linking up

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  3. It sounds very tasty and looks like one of those so called super fruits that are really good for you

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  4. I don't think I have ever seen this fruit before

    mollyx

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