Garcinia pictoria Roxb.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Clusiaceae > Garcinia

Characteristics

Medium size or large tree; trunk straight, the branches drooping, angular; sap yellow. Leaves oblong, to narrowly obovate, apically acute or short acuminate, basally rounded, sometimes somewhat dimidiate, the costa broad, plane or im-pressed above, elevated beneath, coriaceous, shiny, often drying yellowish; pet-iole sharply angled with a basal enclosed pit, often drying yellow, the lateral veins arcuate, loop connected to form a submarginal vein 2-3 mm from the margin. Inflorescences several-flowered axillary fascicles; pedicels ca. 2.5 cm long. Flow-ers (from Maheshwari) white, ca. 1.5 cm across; sepals (4-)5, orbicular, concave, fleshy, unequal, apically ciliate; petals 5, ca. 8 mm long, orbicular, spreading, incurved, greenish; stamens in 5 broad bundles of 3-5 each, antipetalous, alter-nating with 5 fleshy glands, the anthers bilocular, pistillate flowers with stami-nodes few, complanate; ovary ovoid, acuminate, 5 locular, stigmas 5. Fruit bac-cate, ca. 6.5 cm across, subglobose, pointed, dark yellow with copious yellow gum when cut; seeds 1-4, imbedded in a yellow, aril like pulp.
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Mature height (meter) 15.0
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Forests; at elevations up to 1,200 metres.
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Usage

Uses dye gum medicinal oil tea timber wood
Edible fruits seeds
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Garcinia pictoria world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:927745-1
WFO ID wfo-0000694570
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Synonyms

Hebradendron pictorium Garcinia pictoria