Taxon:
Garcinia mangostana L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:443. 1753
Verified:
08/22/2008
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
king's-fruit – mangostan – mangosteen – French
mangoustanier – German
Mangostanbaum – Mangostane – Malay
manggis – Portuguese
mangostão – Spanish
mangostán – Swedish
mangostan – Transcribed Chinese
mang ji shi –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. in tropics |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | native? |
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
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MALESIA:
Malaysia (native?)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | fruit | actually aril eaten | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |