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Garcinia humilis
Also called Achacha
Garcinia humilis, called wild mammee or achacha, is a tropical fruiting tree related to mangosteen, native from the eastern Caribbean to Guyana. It needs a warm, humid tropical climate and moist soil, and it is grown mainly for its small reddish-orange fruit.
Garcinia humilis, known commonly as abricot or wild mammee, is a species of flowering plant related to the mangosteen. It is a tree native to a region from the eastern Caribbean islands to Guyana. It grows in moist lowland and submontane forests, typically in seasonally-flooded river deltas and ravines. In Jamaica, it also grows in moist forest on karst limestone hillsides.
The species was first described as Mammea humilis by Martin Vahl in 1798. In 1970, Charles Dennis Adams placed the species in genus Garcinia as G. humilis.
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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.
