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Garcinia cowa
Also called Cowa Fruit, Cowa Moangosteen, Cowa
Garcinia cowa is an evergreen tree from tropical Asia, grown mainly for its edible fruit and leaves, which are often gathered from the wild. It needs a warm, humid, wet tropical climate and is rarely grown as a houseplant.
Garcinia cowa, commonly known as cowa fruit or cowa mangosteen is an evergreen plant with edible fruit native to tropical Asia, including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Yunnan in southwestern China. The tree is harvested from the wild for its edible fruits and leaves, which are used locally. Flowers are yellow, male & female flowers are separated.
It is locally known as Kau Thekera (কাও থেকেৰা) in Assamese, Kawa or kau in Bengali and Malayalam, Kau in Manipuri.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
