Origin of Mangosteen

Mangosteen comes from the Malay Peninsula. Germplasm resource centers in Malaysia and East Kalimantan. Endemic area includes Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Filifina.
Botanical nature MangosteenMangosteen is a forest tree. His figure is not very high, about 20 m. Plants grow slowly, usually young leaves appear 1-2 times a year. This is because the root beside him just a little.
A. Leaves and Branches
 Leaves look beautiful crown resembling a half cone. The leaves are wide and thick. Stems and branches many, grow inclined flat, but generally uneven and many bumps.
B. FlowersFlowers are large. Thick petals consists of four strands and green. Short pistil, will be a big round fruit and green. 4-8 branched stigma that remains attached to the end of the fruit.
C. FruitRipe fruit maroon with former blackish-red anthers. All parts of the plants are still young gummy yellowish. The fruit has the same segments 4-8 with many branches of the stigma. However, that became the seeds are large, generally only 1-3 pieces. Seeds are formed without going through pollination because it has no pollen (pollen), sex rudimentary. Each seed covered with flesh which is arilod (tissue lining of seeds) white clean and fresh taste. Each segment has a large seed. Each segment has the potential to grow (poliembrioni vegetative) taproot and leaves. Seeds Apomixis occur from three kinds of cells, which are as follows. 1. haploid egg cell tuck themselves into diploid. In addition, diploid egg cell because the parent tetraploid or diploid egg cell tuck themselves into tetraploid. 2. Cells polar (cell fusion) are diploid or tetraploid, depending on the parent 3. Cells integument that encloses the seeds (nucellus) are diploid or tetraploid, depending on the parent.
D. RootMangosteen has a taproot and root of all the small side, but within.