Fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66561 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Garcinia indica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Fruits | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | FruitsUse: FOOD ADDITIVES User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD ADDITIVES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Common on W coast between Damann and Goa; it grows wild upon the hills of the Concan, but is often to be seen in gardens close to the sea. It flowers about Christmas and ripens its fruit in April and May. Fruit is largely used all along t, he w coast as acid ingredient in curries, and is an article of commerce in the dry state. Prepared by removing seeds and drying the pulp in the sun; the latter is then slightly salted and ready for the market. In Goa the pulp is sometimes separated from, the skin and made into large globular or elongated masses. Seeds are pounded and boiled to extract oil which becomes solid and is moulded into balls or convex cakes. This is known as kokum butter and is used for cooking, and it is not usually used to, adulterate Ghee. Apothecaries of Goa prepare a fine purple syrup from fruit. Fruit is spherical, about the size of a small orange, purple, containing an acid pulp of deeper colour in which 5 to 8 reniform seeds are imbedded. Kokum butter is dirty whit, e colour, firm, dry and friable in hottest weather, and greasy to the touch, it is usually impure and needs remelting and straining before use for pharmaceutical purposes. It has a yellowish tinge, so ointments of it is inferior in appearence to spermace, tiointment. Dymock. Pharm Journ. | ||||
| Determinations: | 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Garcinia indica (Thou.) Choisy 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Garcinia purpurea Roxb. | ||||