Fruit or mangosteen tree is a kind
dense and green leafy trees with large and powerful tree shapes in the tropics. According to the opinion of the mangosteen tree people came from the Malay Peninsula, after that it only spread to the region of Sumatra and Java.
Middle-aged mangosteen looks yellow and beautiful
This mangosteen tree can grow to reach 10-27 meters in height, with red skin collaborate purple when it is ready to be harvested or picked.
Fruit that is almost ready to be harvested at the end of the branch
This fruit there is also we see a patterned red skin color. Mangosteen some people know him as the Queen of Fruits other than his partner the King of Fruit is Durian. Mangosteen contains antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, so overseas the mangosteen fruit is known as the fruit that has the highest antioxidant levels compared with other fruits.
The trees are tall and big and will grow again
Mangosteen plant is a tropical plant that can develop with warm temperatures and stable for a long time or a long-lived tree. Some experienced plant scientists have grown this species of trees to be developed in extreme weather areas abroad.
Seeds that begin to grow, and ready in the seedlings
Mangosteen plants are apomixis obligat, seeds are not derived from fertilization and are suspected to have a narrow genetic diversity, mangosteen is estimated in nature only one clone and is the same as the parent or tree. Seen now the growth of mangosteen trees indicate the existence of a wide range, this may be due to Nature factor or environment where it grows also caused genetic factors due to natural mutation that is in line with the journey of mangosteen plants that are very old age of thousands of years.
Young fruit on a leafy tree
Young mangosteen plants do not require much fertilization to develop, the new tree will be pale green usually. As the fruit begins to grow for two to three months, it will darken the skin color. While the growth period of the fruit size can increase larger until the skin is sized five to seven cm or more, the fruit will remain hard until the time of picking.
The texture of the lower surface of the mangosteen skin is composed of various layers of polyphenols, including tannins and xanthones that ensure that astringent can inhibit the attention of fungi, viruses and plant or animal insects of fruits and bacteria while the fruit is still in the tree in other words half the age. Substitution of color and softening of the skin of the fruit occurs naturally until ready to be picked.
Fruit shape round with reddish purple texture
The way of presentation or peel the skin of mangosteen are:
This fruit is eaten when it is old by splitting or squeezing from two skins carefully, after that can be removed the contents of the flesh, and there is also we see the young green mangosteen sold with a more sour taste, but the sweetness remains not lost.
Flesh white is clean and delicious, look after split
#Well,,,that's a brief description of the mangosteen fruit that is spectacular and unique that is somewhat different from other fruits, and there are also planted in the courtyard of the house of course besides delicious and sweet taste for own consumption also can make export commodities.