Mango
Mangifera indica · Anacardiaceae · 망고
Look
- Leaves
- Dark green, long-elliptic to lanceolate simple leaves (up to 30 cm long and 7 cm wide) with slightly wavy margins; new leaves are coppery red to bronze.
- Flowers
- Small flowers (5 mm), yellow to pinkish-white, grow in large showy panicles on red stalks and are fragrant.
- Fruit
- A large egg-shaped to long-elliptic drupe up to 20 cm long, with green, yellow or red skin; when ripe the flesh is yellow, juicy and strongly scented.
- Bark
- The bark of mature trees is cracked.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Presumed native from India to Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and New Guinea.
- Ecology
- A tree that attracts birds such as parakeets, hornbills, black-naped orioles and bulbuls, and a host plant for butterflies.
Sources
- 국립수목원 국가표준식물목록(KPNI 웹 조회)
- NParks Flora&Fauna Web (Mangifera indica)
- UF/IFAS Extension: Mango Growing in the Florida Home Landscape
- Morton, Fruits of Warm Climates: Mango (Purdue Univ. NewCROP)
- National Portal of India, Know India — National Symbols 'National Fruit'(2010-08-20 웹 아카이브 보관본, 출처 표기 India 2010 - A Reference Annual)