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Mangifera indica, Linn. Mango. Fig. 2320. A large tree, erect or spreading in habit, 30-90 ft. high, with oblong-lanceolate to elliptic lvs. 6-16 in. long, variable in breadth, glabrous, deep green, the margins sometimes undulate, apex commonly acute; petiole 1—4 in. long, swollen at the base: panicles a foot or more in length, pubescent, rarely glabrate; fls. yellowish or reddish, odorous, sub- sessile, staminate and hermaphrodite on the same panicle; sepals ovate-oblong, concave; petals twice as long as sepals, ovate, 3-5-ridged, the ridges orange; disk fleshy, 5-lobed; stamens 1 fertile, 4 reduced to staminodes of varying prominence; anthers purplish; ovary glabrous: fr. 2-6 in. or more in length, usually compressed laterally, greenish, yellowish or reddish in color. N. India, Burma, and possibly Malaya, as noted above. B.M. 4510. H.U. 3:193.
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Mangifera (from mango, common name of one species, and Latin, to tear). Anacardiaceae. Tropical trees, of which M. indica is the only one well known horticulturally, and is cultivated throughout the tropics for its fruit, being naturalized in many regions. It is the mango of English-speaking countries, in its finer varieties one of the most delicious of air tropical fruits. Several other species also produce edible fruits, mostly, however, of indifferent value; their distribution is in nearly all cases limited. The Malay Archipelago is the home of nearly the entire genus, Malacca having a particularly large proportion of species. M. indica has been in cultivation since such a remote period that its exact origin is somewhat doubtful, but it has been considered by the best authorities to be indigenous to the Himalayan foothills of eastern India, extending possibly through Burma into the Malayan region.
Mangifera (from mango, common name of one species, and Latin, to tear). Anacardiaceae. Tropical trees, of which M. indica is the only one well known horticulturally, and is cultivated throughout the tropics for its fruit, being naturalized in many regions. It is the mango of English-speaking countries, in its finer varieties one of the most delicious of air tropical fruits. Several other species also produce edible fruits, mostly, however, of indifferent value; their distribution is in nearly all cases limited. The Malay Archipelago is the home of nearly the entire genus, Malacca having a particularly large proportion of species. M. indica has been in cultivation since such a remote period that its exact origin is somewhat doubtful, but it has been considered by the best authorities to be indigenous to the Himalayan foothills of eastern India, extending possibly through Burma into the Malayan region.
