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Garcinia prainiana King

Button mangosteen

Clusiaceae · Thailand, Malaya

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Summary

Garcinia prainiana, known as the button mangosteen or cherapu, is a species of flowering plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is small or medium-sized tree which is native to Peninsular Malaysia and Peninsular Thailand. Its fruit has a flavor similar to its cousin, the purple mangosteen, with an interesting taste some have compared to a tangerine, but unlike its cousin it has a tissue-thin skin rather than a hard rind, making it much easier to eat out-of-hand. Also unlike the purple mangosteen, it can be grown in a container. More on Wikipedia ›

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About the genus · Garcinia

Garcinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae native to the Sundaland bioregion of Asia, America, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The number of species is disputed; Plants of the World Online (POWO) recognise up to 400. Commonly, the plants in this genus are called saptrees, mangosteens, or garcinias, and is one of several plants known as by the name "monkey fruit". More on Wikipedia ›

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 3 of the 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeThailand, Malaya · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 48 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Tanoh Huma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Garcinia 32 in the reference

Garcinia atroviridis Garcinia atroviridis Clusiaceae Photo: CC BY, Ooi QieGarcinia brasiliensis Garcinia brasiliensis Clusiaceae Photo: CC BY, Thomaz Ricardo Favreto Sinani Garcinia celebica Clusiaceae Garcinia cochinchinensis Clusiaceae Garcinia cowa Garcinia cowa Brindal Berry Photo: CC BY, Muhammad HEEMBOO Garcinia cymosa Clusiaceae Garcinia dulcis Garcinia dulcis Claudie mangosteen Photo: CC BY-SA, Christian Pirkl Garcinia forbesii Clusiaceae Garcinia gardneriana Garcinia gardneriana Achacha Photo: CC BY, Paulo C. O. CunhaGarcinia gerrardii Garcinia gerrardii Forest Garcinia Photo: CC BY-SA, JMKGarcinia gummi-gutta Garcinia gummi-gutta Malabar tamarind Photo: CC BY, Navaneeth Sini GeorgeGarcinia humilis Garcinia humilis Wild mammee Photo: CC BY, Guillaume Delaitre all 33 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Clusiaceae
Described by
King
Native to
Thailand, Malaya
Wild records
4 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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