Talk:Mangosteen

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Requested move 20 December 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 06:28, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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Purple mangosteen → Mangosteen – In Indonesian and Malay, where this plant originated, the plant is known simply as Manggis, direct translation of Mangosteen. This page is the only page with the name "mangosteen" at Category:Garcinia. Hddty. (talk) 05:23, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: The article says the term "mangosteen" can refer to the entire genus, which contains a large number of species. Are we sure that this one is what practically everyone is referring to when they say "mangosteen"? —BarrelProof (talk) 06:28, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Probably. At its Wikidata item, majority of the pages doesn't use "purple" in the name. Based on the logs this page was originally titled "Mangosteen" (logs: Purple mangosteen Mangosteen). When you typed "Mangosteen" on Google Images only purple mangosteen showed up. --Hddty. (talk) 07:27, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: Page was unilaterally moved in 2008 by Dysmorodrepanis~enwiki, who appears to be no longer active. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:22, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
• Support per its being the overwhelmingly WP:COMMONNAME and the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. (Just check the major dictionaries.) Mangosteen redirects here, so there is nothing currently gained from the extra precision. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:22, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
• Support. While other species in the genus are sometimes called "mangosteens", a qualifying term is always appended (e.g. "button mangosteen"). This species is rarely referred to as "purple mangosteen", and is overwhelmingly the subject referred to by the unqualified term "mangosteen" (not the genus as a whole, or other species in the genus). Plantdrew (talk) 05:07, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
• Support per Plantdrew and the fact that mangosteen redirects here. Guettarda (talk) 15:19, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

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Who's that Pokémon? Iiiiiit's Bounsweet!

Should a mention of Bounsweet from Pokémon be on here? She's based on the mangosteen and looks just like one. I would think not many people would know what a mangosteen is and Nintendo probably chose that because of that reason but also because, y'know, Alola. Like, I didn't know what a mangosteen was until I saw that's what Bounsweet was based on.

Lucy LostWord (ILike Leavanny) 04:09, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

If anything, the mention should be the other way round. If it's reliably sourced, I don't see why the fact shouldn't be noted at the list article where Bounsweet is covered. --Paul_012 (talk) 03:56, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

True Lucy LostWord (ILike Leavanny) 03:53, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

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The mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) is a tropical evergreen tree with edible fruit native to Maritime Southeast Asia, from the Malay Peninsula to Borneo. It is grown mainly in Southeast Asia, southwest India, and other tropical areas such as Colombia, Puerto Rico and Florida, where the tree has been introduced. The fruit is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind (exocarp) when ripe. In each fruit, the fragrant edible white flesh that surrounds each seed is the endocarp, the inner layer of the ovary, and is roughly the same shape and size as a tangerine, about 4 to 6 centimetres (1.5 to 2.5 inches) in diameter. This photograph, which was focus-stacked from 22 individual images, shows two mangosteens, one whole, and the other halved to expose the endocarp.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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