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the purple queen of fruit so good Queen Victoria allegedly offered a reward to taste one
means A round tropical fruit with a thick purple-red rind and segmented, snow-white flesh prized for its sweet-tart flavor, native to Southeast Asia.
from From Malay manggis, the fruit's local name. Dutch traders carried both fruit and word back to Europe, where English reshaped it into 'mangosteen' — the tail end likely smeared together by association with the unrelated mango. Despite sounding like a pairing, the two fruits aren't kin; the resemblance lives only in the spelling.
- royal bounty
- Victoria reputedly knighted whoever brought her a fresh one
- import ban
- banned in the US until 2007 over fruit-fly fears
- counts itself
- petal bumps on the bottom equal segments inside
- thick armor
- the bitter purple rind dyes everything it touches
- slow grower
- trees can take a decade to first fruit
mangosteen fruit — tropical fruit native to southeast asia, particularly thailand and indonesia, with deep purple skin and white segments
garcinia mangostana — the scientific name for mangosteen tree, cultivated commercially in thailand, malaysia, and the philippines