Mangifera indica L.
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| Family: | ANACARDIACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Mango Tree | ||||
| Synonym: | Mangifera austroyunnanensis Hu. | ||||
| Common Name: | Cuckoos joy | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | January - May | ||||
| Distribution: | Indo-Malaysia | ||||
| Habitat: | Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests and also widely cultivated | ||||
| Uses: | Fruits edible, young leaves edible, essential oil yielding, timber yielding. The leaves are astringent and odontalgic. An infusion is drunk to reduce blood pressure and as a treatment for conditions such as angina, asthma | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Mango trees are evergreen trees with bark dark grey. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, linear-oblong, margin entire. Flowers polygamous, yellowish-green, in terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5, ovate, imbricate. Petals 4-5, oblong. Stamens 4-5. Ovary sessile, superior, ovule pendulous. Fruit a drupe, yellowish-red, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp fibrous. | ||||