Garcinia xanthochymus

Garcinia xanthochymus is an evergreen tree with more or less horizontal branches and a dense pyramidal crown. It can grow 8 - 15 metres tall. It has a short, straight bole. The tree is harvested from the wild, and is also cultivated and semi-cultivated, for its edible fruit and dyestuff.

Uses

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Food

Garcinia xanthochymus can be used in Food. Ripe fruits are eaten raw. Pulp is also used to make sharbat (soft drink)^[2].

Parts Used

Fruits.

Chemical Composition

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Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada	Devajarige
Hindi	Jharambi
Malayalam	Anavaya
Tamil	Paccilai
Telugu	Cikatimranu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit	Bhavishya
English	Mysore Gamboge, Sour mangosteen

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Nutritional components

Garcinia xanthochymus Contains the Following nutritional components like - Vitamin-B and C; Phenolic compounds, Fukugetin, Fukugiside, Glycoside, Xanthones - garcinenone; Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium^[4]

Habit

Evergreen tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature

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Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
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Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds

Cultivation Details

A plant of the hot, humid tropics, where it is found at elevations up to 1,000 metres^[6]. Garcinia xanthochymus is available through February-May^[2].

Commonly seen growing in areas

Dense humid forests, On hills.

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References

↑ Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Forest foods of Western Ghat
↑ [Chemistry]
↑ Forest food for Northern region of western ghat pdf by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, MACS - Agharkar Research Institute, Pune
↑ [Morphology]
↑ Cultivation

External Links

[Uses-1] Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare

[Forest_foods_of_Western_Ghat-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Forest foods of Western Ghat

[chemical_composition-3] [Chemistry]

[Nutritional_components-4] Forest food for Northern region of western ghat pdf by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, MACS - Agharkar Research Institute, Pune

[Leaf-5] [Morphology]

[How_to_plant.2Fcultivate-6] Cultivation

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