Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Garcinia gaudichaudii

Garcinia gaudichaudii
Photo: unknown, CC BY 4.0

Garcinia gaudichaudii is a tree in the mangosteen family (Clusiaceae), native to lowland tropical rainforest in Laos and Vietnam. It is a wild forest species with little cultivation history, so care advice is limited to general tropical forest tree needs.

Family
Clusiaceae (Clusi family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist in the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich forest-type soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C.
Native range
Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Garcinia gaudichaudii is a species of plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is native to Laos and Vietnam,

where it grows in lowland tropical rain forest.

Safety

The xanthonoids gaudichaudione A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, gaudichaudiic acid A, B, C, D, E, morellic acid and forbesione from G. gaudichaudii.

Other Garcinia plants

Garcinia acuminata · Garcinia acutifolia · Bitter Kola · Garcinia aristata · Garcinia assamica · Garcinia atroviridis · Garcinia benthamiana · Garcinia bifasciculata · Garcinia binucao · Garcinia brasiliensis · Garcinia brassii · Garcinia brevirostris

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Garcinia gaudichaudii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…