Abstract
ABSTRACT Garcinia gummi-gutta is a hardwood and fruit tree—family Guttiferae—indigenous in the deciduous and semi-evergreen forests of the southern Western Ghats of India. The tree is also grown in homesteads, mainly for its fruits that are used in food preparations. The paper describes a means to raise the species artificially either in forest areas or in homesteads, based on preliminary nursery and plantation trials conducted in 2000–02. Seeds are the best source of planting stock, though vegetative propagation using juvenile stem cuttings gave about 50 per cent success. No serious pests or diseases affected the seeds or seedlings in the nursery or early plantation trial. The survival of field planted seedlings was more than 65 percent in the second year of establishment, though the height growth was slow.
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