Mangosteens???????

I've never heard of them growing anywhere in the Virgin Islands. There is or was a grower in PR but I understand they're not easily grown here and thus aren't a financially viable business prospect.

What about any of the grocery stores around?

Oldtart you are a wealth of knowledge.....

Never seen them in the markets either! Whatever you want to do with them, can you manage to get by on our local and more readily-available fruits? It is mango season now after all. That's something I would revel in were it not for the fact that just a few years ago I sudenly became alarmingly allergic to them. Can't tell you how that ticks me off. 😀

I LOVE the local fruit!

My mother is coming to visit next week and asked if we had them here. She has only had them when visiting my sister in the middle east and she thought they might have them here thats why I am asking around.

Maybe she will enjoy the SOURSOP instead!

I had never heard of a mangosteen, previously.
I had to look it up. Nope, we don't have them here.
Here is an interesting link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_mangosteen

mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. The tree grows from 7 to 25 m (20–80 ft) tall. The fruit of the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy, and somewhat fibrous, with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind (exocarp) when ripe.[1] In each fruit, the fragrant edible flesh that surrounds each seed is botanically endocarp, i.e., the inner layer of the ovary.