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Common names of rose apple in Indian vernacular languages and in other countries

Common names of rose apple in Indian vernacular languages and in other countries

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... apple has been cultivated in India possibly from 500 B.C. At present times, rose apple can be seen in many parts of India (predominantly in Southern, coastal Western & North-Eastern India) and scarcely distributed in states like Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and on islands of Andaman and Nicobar where people identify it by different names (Table 2). Commercial orchards of rose apple doesn't exist but the tree is widely accepted in home gardens and scattered in most tropical & subtropical regions due to curiosity, its rose flavour fruits as well as its ornamental foliage. ...

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