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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Tomas on August 07, 2012, 08:00:13 PM
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Hi,
Is this a correct picture of Garcinia prainiana (cherapu/button mangosteen)?
(http://s8.postimage.org/tayt4hwzl/Garcinia_prainiana.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/tayt4hwzl/)
I also wonder if anyone knows how it taste and if you eat the skin too?
Tomas
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Looks right. Haven't tasted them yet, hope to this year. Warren (Fruitguy) has tasted them and liked them. As i recall he said they had a kind of tangerine taste? The peel is not eaten.
There is a section about them in Whitman's book 5 Decades with Tropical Fruits. He fruited them in Florida.
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Those look good! I need to get me Garcinia prainiana tree!
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Thanks Oscar. I was glad to discover from that picture that the seeds are not clingy like G. madruno. I am not so fond of eating/sucking the fruit flesh around seeds.
Tomas