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Mangifera indica L.

Synonym                    : Mangifera austroyunnanensis Hu.

Family                        : Anacardiaceae

Local Names              : Maavu, Mango tree, Cuckoo’s joy

Flowering and fruiting period: January – May 

Distribution: Indo-Malaysia

Habitat: Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests and also widely cultivated

IUCN status: Data Deficient

Endemic: Yes

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 Characters 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.