The purple mangosteen (Garcinia
mangostana), colloquially
known simply as mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. It grows mainly in Southeast Asia, and also in tropical South American countries
such as Colombia, in the state of Kerala in India and in Puerto Rico,where the tree has been introduced. The tree
grows from 6 to 25 m (20–82 ft) tall.fruit of the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy,
and somewhat fibrous, with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind (exocarp) when ripe. In each fruit, the fragrant edible flesh that
surrounds each seed is botanically endocarp, i.e., the inner layer of the ovary. The purple mangosteen belongs to the same genus
as the other, less widely known, mangosteens, such as the button mangosteen (G.
prainiana) or the charichuelo (G. madruno).
A description of mangosteen was included in the Species
Plantarum by Linnaeus in 1753.
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