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'''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}}.

==Uses=Food==={{Uses|Indigestion}}, {{Uses|Cuts}}, {{Uses|Snakebites}}, {{Uses|Diabetes}}, {{Uses|Cancers}}, {{Uses|Skin problems}}, {{Uses|Pimples}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Sore throats}}Garcinia indica can be used in Food. Leaves are used in curry and syrup is made from fruit pulp. The outer rind of the fruit is dried and used in curries. Edible fat from the plant which is known as Kokam butter is also used in some preparations<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.

{{Parts Used|Leaves}}, {{Parts Used|Fruits}}.

Cyanidin-3-glucoside and cyanidin-3-sambubioside.<ref name="chemical composition"/>

{{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|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|Berry|2.5-4 cm across||4-8 loculed, purple or wine brown, surrounded by persistent calyx; pulp red|seeds Seeds 5-8, compressed in acidic pulp.}}

{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|CuttingsGrafting}}.

==How to plant/cultivateCultivation Details==It can be propagated through soft wood grafts. Garcinia indica requires a warm and humid tropical climate.Garcinia indica is available through December- March<ref name<ref name="How to plant/cultivateForest foods of Western Ghat"/>.

<ref name="chemical composition">[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10942910802626754?src=recsys "Main constituents"]</ref> <ref name="Leaf">FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "-Botanical description"</ref>

 <ref name="How to plant/cultivateForest foods of Western Ghat">[http://tropical"Forest food for Northern region of Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N.thefernsDatar and Dr.info/viewtropicalAnuradha S.php?id=Garcinia+indica "Upadhye, Page No.80, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation Details"]of Science (MACS) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune</ref>