Garcinia cowa Roxb. ex Choisy, Prodr. 1: 561 1824. (Syn: Cambogia crassifolia Blanco; Garcinia cambogia Roxb. [Illegitimate]; Garcinia cornea Roxb. ex Sm.; Garcinia dioica Sm. [Illegitimate]; Garcinia roxburghii Wight; Garcinia umbellifera Wall. [Invalid]; Garcinia wallichii Choisy; Oxycarpus gangetica Buch.-Ham.);
Evergreen trees, to 15 m high, bark smooth, surface greyish-brown; blaze creamy-yellow; exudation yellow, sticky, scanty; branches horizontal; branchlets quadrangular, drooping. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 8-13 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 8-17 x 2.5-7 cm, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate or broadly lanceolate, base acute, attenuate or cuneate, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, thickly coriaceous; lateral nerves 15-21 pairs, pinnate, ascending, slender, prominent, looped along the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers dioecious, small, yellow; male flowers: to 1 cm across, 3-8 in axillary or terminal fascicles; pedicels about 6 mm long; sepals 4, 4-6 mm long, unequal, broadly ovate, fleshy, yellow; petals 4, 8-10 mm long, oblong, yellow flushed with pink or red; stamens numerous on a convex fleshy receptacle; anthers oblong; filaments short; rudimentary pistil absent; female flowers: upto 1.5 cm across, 2-5 in terminal fascicles, longer than male flowers, yellow; pedicel short; staminodes in a ring of 4 bundles of 3-8 around the ovary; filaments unequal; ovary superior, subglobose, 6-8 locular, ovules one in each cell; stigma sessile, flat, deeply divided into 6-8, papillose, wedge shaped rays. Fruit a berry, 2-4 cm across, depressed, globose, with 4-8 vertical grooves, smooth, yellow, ridid, beaked; seeds 4-8, oblong with a soft aril. Flowering and fruiting: December-September Evergreen and shola forests India to Indo-China From India Biodiversity Portal ) Garcinia sp. for ID : Attachments (1). 5 posts by 4 authors. Date : 21-03-2014. Habitat : Wild. Habit : Small or Small to medium-sized evergreen tree. Note : Fruit yellow when ripe, edible. Garcinia xanthochymus The leave & flowers resemble Garcinia gummigutta-The malabar tamarind. Garcinia - some species in India & eFI with some keys efi page on Garcinia xanthochymus It may not be Garcinia gummigutta as I presume the post plant is from Mizoram. It is Garcinia cowa Garcinia cowa (Clusiaceae) : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Here is the photo of a Common Garcinia tree with edible fruits in the Andamans. Flowering in August, at low altitudes. Photo by courtesy of Dr. Vinod Maina.Garcinia (Clusiaceae) for ID : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Location: Andaman Islands Habit: Tree Habitat: Inland hill forests Abundance: Common Suggested ID: G. cowa or G. xanthochymus. Of the two, it appears close to Garcinia cowa Roxb. ex Choisy as per the following: |
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