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Xanthochymus pictorius Roxb.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX38.
In his 'Flora Indica' Roxburgh describes this species as as native of the mountainous districts of India. It flowers during the hot season and ripens its fruit in November and December. Roxburgh also notes: 'This beautiful tree yields a green fruit, and a large quantity of indifferent gamboge. It is truly guttiferous, and but little removed in its natural habit, from the 'Garcinias''.
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.2, p.633.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Category

Glossary
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