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[[File:Garcinia indica - fruits, seeds, pulp and rinds.jpg|thumb|right|KOKUM(punarpuli)]]
'''Garcinia indica''' a plant in the mangosteen family, mostly in . It is native to Asia and Africa. Garcinia indica is indigenous to the Western Ghats region of India located along the western coast of the country.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Indigestion}}, {{Uses|Cuts}}, {{Uses|Snakebites}}, {{Uses|Diabetes}}, {{Uses|Cancers}}, {{Uses|Skin problems}}, {{Uses|Pimples}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Sore throats}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Opposite|estipulateEstipulate; petiole 5-12 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 6.5-11 x 1.5-4 cm, lanceolate or obovate-oblong, base attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, shining, membranous; lateral nerves 7-18 pairs, parallel, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Polygamodieocious|Axillary and terminal fascicles||Many|pedicels Pedicels 6 mm long; sepals 4, yellowish-orange to pinkish-orange, coriaceous, ovate-rotundate, outer ones 3-4.5 mm long, inner ones 4.5-5 mm long; petals 4, 5-6 mm long, thick; stamens many, inserted on a hemispheric subquardate torus; filaments short; anthers oblong, truncate, loculi laterally introrse; rudimentary pistil absent or a few equalling the stamens; female flowers: solitary, terminal; pedicels 3 mm long; sepals and petals as in male flowers; staminodes 10-, 18, in 4 unequal, 2 to 3 seriate phalanges alternating with petals, 1-3 mm long; ovary superior, 4-8 locular, subglobose; stigma 4-8 rayed, convex, coronate, rays tuberculate, often 2-seriate.}}
===Fruit===
