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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Tomas on August 07, 2012, 08:00:13 PM

Title: Garcinia prainiana (cherapu/button mangosteen)
Post by: Tomas on August 07, 2012, 08:00:13 PM

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

Title: Re: Garcinia prainiana (cherapu/button mangosteen)
Post by: fruitlovers on August 08, 2012, 12:10:14 AM

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.

Title: Re: Garcinia prainiana (cherapu/button mangosteen)
Post by: davidgarcia899 on August 08, 2012, 10:51:09 AM

Those look good! I need to get me Garcinia prainiana tree!

Title: Re: Garcinia prainiana (cherapu/button mangosteen)
Post by: Tomas on August 08, 2012, 12:45:12 PM

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