Mangosteen

<center>Mangosteens can be purchased frozen in most major cities inexpensively. These fine specimens cost a total of $4.</center><br> <center>The pattern on the bottom of a mangosteen fruit corresponds with the number of segments inside.</center><br> <center>A young mangosteen tree.</center><br> <center>Genetically and physically, the mangosteen shares characteristics with the two closest related garcinia species, <i>garcinia malaccensis</i> (left), and <i>garcinia hombriana</i> (right), and is thought to be a hybrid of the two.</center><br>
Genetically and physically, the mangosteen shares characteristics with the two closest related garcinia species, garcinia malaccensis (left), and garcinia hombriana (right), and is thought to be a hybrid of the two.