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A yellowish exudation obtained from the gokatu tree, ''Garcinia morella'', native to Sri Lanka. Gokatu gamboge is locally used as a yellow pigment in water based paints. | A yellowish exudation obtained from the gokatu tree, ''Garcinia morella'', native to Sri Lanka. Gokatu gamboge is locally used as a yellow pigment in water based paints. | ||
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== Synonyms and Related Terms == | == Synonyms and Related Terms == | ||
Revision as of 08:47, 16 January 2014
Description
A yellowish exudation obtained from the gokatu tree, Garcinia morella, native to Sri Lanka. Gokatu gamboge is locally used as a yellow pigment in water based paints.
See Gamboge.
Synonyms and Related Terms
Garcinia morella; gamboge (Esp.); goma guta (Esp.); gomme gutte (Fr.); jaune du Cambodge (Fr.); gomma gutta (It); cambogia (It); Ceylon gamboge
Authority
- Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Vol. 3, 1997 Comment: H.Schweppe, J.Winter, "Madder and Alizarin"
- B.D.Nandadeva, Materials used in Sri Lanka, personal communication, 1995