Indonesia has so many different kind of tropical fruits. One of them is mangosteen (Garcinia Mangostana L.) which is the most famous tropical fruit from Indonesia that grows in Indonesian archipelago, the tree's height can reach 7-25 meters and the skin is purplish or lighter red color. Inside consists of white meat with black seeds.
Mangosteen is also known as the queen of fruit, beside the durian which is considering to be a king of fruit. Mangosteen contains anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant. It is the fruit with the highest level of anti-oxidant compared to any other fruit.
This fruit is an obligate apomixes, the seed are not from fertilization and has a variety of narrow genetic, so the fruit can only have one clone and has the same character with its parent.
Mangosteen is eaten in a state ripe with splitting the two skins carefully so that the contents can be removed. Young mangos teen is also sold with a more sour taste sweet but at the same time.
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