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Garcinia hanburyi
Also called Siam Gamboge, Gamboge
Hanbury's garcinia is a tropical tree native from Bangladesh to Indo-China, grown for the yellow resin (gamboge) its trunk produces. It is a large forest tree rarely grown as a garden plant, so care notes below apply mainly to cultivation in a warm, humid climate.
Garcinia hanburyi is a plant species in the genus Garcinia, native to Indochina; it is one of the gamboge producing trees.
Cytotoxic xanthonoids (gambogin, morellin dimethyl acetal, isomoreollin B, moreollic acid, gambogenic acid, gambogenin, isogambogenin, desoxygambogenin, gambogenin dimethyl acetal, gambogellic acid, gambogic acid, isomorellin, morellic acid, desoxymorellin, hanburin) and isomorellinol can be isolated from the dry latex of G. hanburyi.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Garcinia hanburyi 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.
