Garcinia esculenta Y.H.Li

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Clusiaceae > Garcinia

Characteristics

Trees 15-20 m tall. Twigs gray-brown, finely striate, sometimes lenticellate. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade abaxially brownish, elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, 12-18(-20) × 4-7 cm, papery, midvein raised on both surfaces; secondary veins regular, 8-10 pairs; tertiary veins rather dense, inconspicuous, base cuneate, slightly decurrent, margin cartilaginous, involute, apex acute or obtusely acuminate. Plants dioecious. Male flowers 2 or 3 in cymule; cymules ca. 2 cm, 1-3 together at apex of young branchlet; peduncles robust, distinctly articulate, 0.8-1 cm; pedicels robust, shorter than 5 mm; sepals 2 large, 2 small, obovate; petals yellowish, 3 large and equal, inner 1 smallest, elliptic or oblong; anthers sessile, complanate, varying in form, 2-celled, cells longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode absent. Female flowers usually solitary at apex of branchlet, larger than males, ca. 1 cm in diam.; filaments of staminodes united and enveloping ovary base; ovary globose, 8-12-loculed, 1-1.2 cm; stigma entire, papillate. Fruit orange-green or orange, ovoid or oblate, 6-8 × 5-9 cm, 6-8(-11)-sulcate outside. Mature seeds 2-4, subrhomboid or obliquely ovoid, 2.5-3 cm. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Jun-Aug.
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A tree. It grows 15-20 m tall. The leaves are brownish underneath. They are narrowly oval and 12-18 cm long by 4-7 cm wide. Plants are separately male and female. The petals are yellow. Male flowers occur in groups of 2 or 3 and female flowers usually occur singly. The fruit are oval and orange. They are 3 cm across.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 15.0 - 20.0
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Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in mixed forests in valleys between (900-)1300-1700 m altitude in southern China. In Yunnan.
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Mixed forests in valleys; at elevations from 1,300-1,700 metres, sometimes descending to 900 metres.
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Usage

The fruit is juicy and slightly sour and is eaten.
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Garcinia esculenta world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:897792-1
WFO ID wfo-0000694306
COL ID 6K92C
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Synonyms

Garcinia esculenta