Garcinia humilis, known commonly as abricot or wild mammee, is a species of flowering plant related to the mangosteen. It is a tree native to a region from the eastern Caribbean islands to Guyana. It grows in moist lowland and submontane forests, typically in seasonally-flooded river deltas and ravines. In Jamaica, it also grows in moist forest on karst limestone hillsides.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Achacha being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Garcinia warrenii
- Garcinia talbotii
- Garcinia intermedia
- Garcinia xanthochymus
- Ambelania acida
- Garcinia brasiliensis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Clusiaceae
- Genus
- Garcinia
- Species
- Garcinia humilis
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