An important ayurvedic fruit and tree... not just for the sour drinks ..purported to save one from the sun on the beaches of Goa... its Garcinol is a basis for a lot of pharmaceutical research for anticancer drug... one such paper is here: http://www.jhoonline.org/content/2/1/38/about#citations-biomedcentral
Usha di ============ On Jan 16, 7:03 pm, Balkar Singh <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > lovely shots > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:23 PM, raman <raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Kokum is a tree with a dense canopy of green leaves and red-tinged tender > > emerging leaves. It is indigenous to the Western Ghats region of India, > > along the western coast. The tree is large and handsome, having elliptic, > > oblong or oblong-lanceolate, deep-green glossy leaves, 5.5-8 cm long and > > 2.5-3 cm broad. The flowers are fleshy, dark pink, solitary or in spreading > > cluster. The fruit is brownish or brownish-gray, marbled with yellow, and > > is crowned by the 4-parted, stalkless stigma. There are from 6 to 8 seeds, > > and the pulp is juicy, white, and delicious in taste and odor. It is about > > the size of an orange. An average kokum tree bears hundreds of fruits > > during summer. When they are tender, they are green in color. As they > > ripen, they get the beautiful purple color. The fruits are plucked when > > they are ripe. The tree is a source of kokam butter which is used in > > cosmetics and confectionary. Flowering: November-February > > > Raman > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964
