In 1930, the great plant explorer David Fairchild wrote a vivid description of eating a mangosteen from his garden in southern Florida. “It is so delicate that it melts in the mouth like ice cream.

We went to Kerala, India, to see how mangosteen is grown and find out what makes it so expensive. More from So Expensive Buying a little over a kilo of fresh mangosteens in the United States can set ...

Mangosteen, also known as Garcinia mangostana L., has long been used as a medicinal plant in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and the Philippines. Different parts of the mangosteen plant have ...