Garcinia venulosa Choisy

A medium sized tree. It grows 15 m tall. The trunk is 40 cm across. The leaves are opposite, leathery and smooth. The flowers are fairly small and borne in rather rounded clusters. The fruit are about 4 to 6 cm across. They are a little flattened. At the base of the fruit there are 4 persistent sepals. The edible portion is surrounded with a hard rind and contains several flat seeds.

A tropical plant. They are very common and widely distributed throughout the Philippines in primary forest at low altitudes.

The fruit are eaten with fish.

Can be grown by seedlings.