Its fruit has a flavor similar to, but distinct from, its cousin, the purple mangosteen, with an interesting taste some have compared to a tangerine, but unlike its cousin it has a tissue-thin skin rather than a hard rind, making it much easier to eat out-of-hand.

Also unlike the purple mangosteen, it can be grown in a container.

The fruit is cultivated in Southeast Asia, by a few backyard growers in South Florida, and at the Whitman Tropical Fruit Pavilion at Florida's Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

[2] It was featured in Malaysian 30 cents stamp, printed in 21-Feb-1999.

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