East India (Assam, Bengal, Mizoram, Bihar and Orissa), Nepal, Myanmar, Kampuchea, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and northern Peninsular Malaysia
Colors
Dull orange or yellow
Shapes
Subglobose, 2.5-6 cm
Flesh colors
Pale orange
Taste
Sour
The genus Garcinia belongs to Clusiaceae family. The trees are small to medium sized reaching to the height of 30 meters and widely distributed in the tropical regions of the world. Cowa Mangosteen is inherent to East India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, Kampuchea, Northern Peninsular Malaysia and Vietnam. It is also found in Anadaman, Nicobar Islands and South and West Yunnan in China. This evergreen tree has the bole of 15-20 cm diameter. The bark is dark brown with lemon yellow exudates. Leaves are simple, entire, opposite, 6-15 by 2.5-6 cm, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, thick, glossy green and tapering to both ends. Male flower have four yellow peals which is flushed with pink. Female flowers are solitary, axillary with staminodes united in lower half. Fruits are oblique, sub-globose-globose and 5–6 × 4–5 cm in diameter. Fruits are green when young and turn dull orange or yellow when matured. Seeds are large, trigonous and embedded in pale orange pulp.
