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mangosteen tree (  RSS feed of this page)mangosteen tree The mangosteen tree is incredibly slow-growing and erect. The tree has a pyramidal crown that attains roughly 20-82 feet in height and has dark-brown or nearly black flaking bark, with the inner bark containing much yellow, gummy, bitter latex. The mangosteen tree produces fruit that is capped by the prominent calyx at the stem end and, with 4-8 triangular, flat remnants of the stigma in a rosette at the apex, is round, with dark-purple to red-purple external skin. The mangosteen tree is not adapted to limestone and therefore does best in deep, rich organic soil. In fact in places such as India, the most productive specimens are on clay containing much coarse material and a little silt. Indeed, the mangosteen tree is unparalleled in its uniqueness.
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