Garcinia pedunculata

Description:

Garcinia pedunculata  (Garcinia pedunculata roxb. ex buch.-ham.) is an arboreal plant in the Garcinia family. Big fruit garcinia bark thick, cork skin; Leaf elliptic, apex rounded, thinly obtuse, base cuneate, midvein thick, concave above; Floral heteroecy; Sepals broadly ovate or subrounded, equally large, thickly fleshy, petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate; Fruit oblate spherical, deep yellow; Flowering from August to December, fruit from 12 to January of the following year.

Application:

Big fruit garcinia, also known as weight loss fruit, contains a lot of HCA (Hydroxy Citric acidfu, hydroxycitric acid), which can inhibit the synthesis of fat, so as to achieve weight loss. At the same time, garcinic acid contained in garcinia fructus and the compound pedunxanthoneD extracted from garcinia fructus peel can inhibit the growth of tumor cells HeLa and NCI-H460, so it has high value in medicine and fruit use. [2] People in Assam, India, grow garcinia garcinia in their homes and use the plant's sour and dried fruit for cooking and curing dysentery.