Citations:imbe

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 * 1928, Otis Warren Barrett, The Tropical Crops
 * The danealan, G. subelliptica, is a 30- to 40-foot tree of the eastern coast of Luzon. [...] The imbe has fruited in southern Florida, but probably it is too exacting in its ecological requirements for general cultivation.
 * 1944, John MacLaren Waterston, Fruit Culture in Bermuda ...
 * Garcinia livingstonei T. Anders., The Imbe, Guttiferae.
 * The Imbe has proved quite hardy and successful on the sandy and limestone rock soils of Southern Florida. The fruit obtained [...]
 * 1960, William Crawford Kennard, H. F. Winters, Some Fruits and Nuts for the Tropics, page 67:
 * Figure 46. - The imbe, Garcinia livingstonei.
 * 1993, Tropical Fruit News, page 102:
 * Trees grow slowly and this makes them ideal for pot culture; in fact, many people grow imbe as a container tropical fruit for small landscapes. Imbes have separate sexes, so this means you have to have both a male and a female tree ...
 * 1993, James J. Darley, Know and Enjoy Tropical Fruit: Tropical Fruit and Nuts: a Cornucopia, P&S Publishing (ISBN 9780646135397), page 45:
 * Purple mangosteen trees have only female flowers and pollen fertilisation is not required. [...] Other Garcinia species, have less to recommend them as a fruit tree; the imbe (G. livingstonei) is small fruited, has a large seed and a little sour flesh.
 * 2006, Susanna Lyle, Discovering Fruit & Nuts: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation, Uses and Health Benefits of Over 300 Food-Producing Plants:
 * (Guttiferae) Relatives: mangosteen
 * A native of eastern Africa, the imbe forms an interestingly-shaped tree and has numerous sweet-sub-acid, tasty bright orange fruits, which can be eaten fresh. It is only cultivated locally ...
 * 2008, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Lost Crops of Africa: Volume III: Fruits, National Academies Press (ISBN 9780309105965), page 291:
 * Africa's best-known mangosteen relative is the imbe, a tree whose soft and colorful fruits brighten up markets [...]. Imbes come from a shrub or small tree with a dense spreading or conical crown topping a short, often twisted trunk [...]

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 * 2000, Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, The Cambridge World History of Food, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521402156), page 1789:
 * The trees of the imbé (Garcinia livingstonei) are grown mostly as ornamentals outside of their native habitat in East Africa. They are cultivated for fruit in Florida, but not commercially.

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 * 1851, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, page 166:
 * The long aerial roots of the Imbe (Philodendron Imbe, Schott), which are used instead of ropes, and which never rot, even under water, hang from every branch; and nearly every tree is the prey of some parasitic fig ...

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 * 1819, Robert Southey, History of Brazil, page 862:
 * Many vessels were built there; and the principal exports were wood and cordage, made of the imbé. The town of Laguna, on the continent, was well situated on the lake which gives it its name, little more than a mile from the bar : [...]
 * 1875, Franz Keller, The Amazon and Madeira Rivers: Sketches and Descriptions from the Note-book of an Explorer
 * In Brazil there are at least six very different species of this family. [...] The straight ropes on the right are the air-roots of the imbé; [...]
 * 1883, Mary Hayden Pike, Ida May, by Mary Langdon, ed. by an English clergyman, page 350:
 * Other curious plants grew at this spot, among which I noticed the aninga, a plant which belongs to the Colocasice. On the trees around, too, were many beautiful orchids and lianas, among which the rope-like roots of the large-leaved imbé attracted my attention; [...]
 * 1940, Hanna Rydh, Argentine to Andes, page 20:
 * Enthroned in the crown, a stately imbé, in the axils leafy bromelia with their gorgeous flowers, along the branches [...]. The lianas, like close-fitting blinds, drew an impenetrable curtain before our eyes; yet we continued to stare bewitched [...]
 * 1987, John Hemming, Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians, page 449:
 * The weapons they use in these pursuits are finished with extraordinary skill. Their long bows are all veneered with bark from imbé lianas and their arrows are made of a wood of great elasticity and worked so well that they look machine-made.