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Garcinia lanceifolia is a small evergreen tree from wet tropical hill forests of northeast India, Bangladesh and Indochina, grown mainly for its edible fruit and medicinal uses. It grows as an understorey tree in deep shade, so bright indirect light or shade suits it best.
Garcinia lanceifolia is an endemic medicinal evergreen plant with edible fruit native to northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Mizoram), Bangladesh, and Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam). It is small evergreen tree growing up to 10 metres tall with glabrous leaves. It is native to moist evergreen subtropical and tropical hill forests from 400 to 1,200 metres elevation, where it is locally common. It typically grows as an understorey plant in the dense shade of other trees. It is used for food and medicine.
It is locally known as 'Rupohi Thekera' (ৰূপহী থেকেৰা) or 'Kon Thekera' (কণ- থেকেৰা) in Assamese, Chengkek in Mizo, Thisuru in Garo, Dieng-soh-jadu in Khasi and Khanada.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Garcinia lanceifolia 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.
