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Garcinia spicata is a species of flowering plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is sometimes called garlic fruit or bitter garcinia. It is a medium-sized tree which grows up 30 ft tall, and is native to southern India and Sri Lanka.
It is native to the lowland and submontane rain forests of southern India, mostly in the Western Ghats, and of Sri Lanka, from 300 to 1,200 meters elevation. It grows in the mid tree forest layer, often associated with the trees Diospyros montana, Melicope lunu-ankenda, Strobocalyx arborea, Otonephelium stipulaceum, and Syzygium laetum.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Garcinia spicata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
