What does the mangosteen tree look like?

Mangosteen is also known as mangosteen, mangosteen and inverted twister. It can not only refer to the plant mangosteen, but also to the fruit of this plant. Is a famous tropical fruit, can be eaten raw or preserved fruit, native to Southeast Asia, generally planted for 10 years to begin to bear fruit, very strict environmental requirements, as well as durian, known as the "queen of fruit".

Mangosteen is a small tree, 12-20m high, with many and dense branches, alternately opposite, and branchlets with obvious longitudinal strips. Leaves opposite, elliptic or long-ovate, 11-21cm long and 4. 5-10cm wide, thick and leathery, dark green and glossy. The back of the leaf is yellowish green, the petiole is short and thick, the leaf base is obtuse, the leaf tip is acute, entire, the leaf vein is obvious, the midvein is light green, protruding, the lateral vein is 15-27 pairs. Parallel to each other and almost perpendicular to the main vein, the leaves are easy to break. When the leaves break, yellow resin flows out.

Mangosteen is usually single flower terminal, sometimes 2-3 flowers grow together, only female flowers, no unisexual male flowers, flowers in full bloom diameter 5-6.2cm, calyx 4, distichous, two two together, into a yellowish green. Margin reddish, petals 4, Obovate, different sizes, very thick, imbricate arrangement, tip involute or anti-curly, red. Deciduous 1-2 days after flowering, stamens 10-23, generally 16, base separated or nearly connate, anther yellow, ovary subglobose, 4-8-loculed, style very broad and thick, stigma 4-8-lobed, florescence September-October.

The mangosteen berry is subglobose, 3.5-7cm in diameter, the calyx is persistent, the pericarp is 0.6-1cm thick and fibrous, the immature fruit exudes yellow juice when it is damaged, and the mature fruit is purplish red. There are 0-4 seeds in the fruit, generally 1-2 seeds, brown, rough, with fibrous lines on the surface. The well-developed seeds are about 2-2.5cm in length, 1.5-2cm in width, 0.7-1.2cm in thickness, 0.12.29 in grain weight and 19 in average grain weight. The main root is strong, deep into the soil, the lateral root is few and weak, there are few root hairs, transplant the root, it is not easy to survive, the fruit period is 11-12 months.

The mangosteen has a straight stem and rough dark brown bark with a bitter yellow resin juice. The crown is conical. The branches are opposite and reflex symmetrical. The branches are stout, and the primary branchlets generally have 4 striped angular edges.