The amalaki is a fruit native to which continent?

Amalaki ('Êmblika officinalis') is a fruit with a bitter taste that’s not usually eaten on its own, but instead prepared as part of a meal or condensed into a supplement. The plant species is native to India, also growing in Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, South East Asia, and China nowadays.

The tree is small to medium in size, reaching 1–8 m (3 ft 3 in–26 ft 3 in) in height. The branchlets are not glabrous or finely pubescent, 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) long, usually deciduous; the leaves are simple, subsessile and closely set along branchlets, light green, resembling pinnate leaves. The flowers are greenish-yellow. The fruit is nearly spherical, light greenish-yellow, quite smooth and hard on appearance, with six vertical stripes or furrows.

Ripening in autumn, the berries are harvested by hand after climbing to upper branches bearing the fruits. The taste of Indian emblic is sour, bitter and astringent, and it is quite fibrous.

It’s known as a rich source of nutrients, including vitamin C, amino acids, pectin, and antioxidAnt-rich polyphenols such as tannins and gallic acid. 'Emblica officinalis' (Gaertn) or 'Phyllanthus emblica' (Linn), commonly known as Indian gooseberry or amla, is arguably the most important medicinal plant in the Indian traditional system of medicine.