Mangifera indica

• Botanical Name : Mangifera indica L.
• Common Name : Mango, Aambo, Keri
• Plant Family : Anacardiaceae
• Plant Form : Tree
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 4, 5, 8-10, 12, 17, 19, 22, 26-30
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Van Chetana Kendra, Infocity, Basan, Aranya Van

About Mangifera indica Plant :

• Habit : A large tree.
• Leaves : Lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, shining, entire, wavy.
• Inflorescence : Large, many-flowered panicles.
• Flowers :
  • Small, polygamous, bracteates.
  • Bracts ovate, small.
  • Sepals ovate, concave.
  • Petals oblong, reflexed with 3-strong, orange-coloured ridges on the inner surface.
  • Disk globular, large, fleshy, 5-lobed, between corolla and stamens.
  • Stamens 1-5, but only 1 fertile and much longer than the others, the others with imperfect or smaller anthers, purple.
  • Ovary 1-celled, oblique, style excentric, ovule 1, pendulous, funicle basal.
• Fruit :
  • Drupe large, fleshy, stone compressed, very hard.
  • Seed large, testa papery, cotyledons plano-convex, often unequal.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : January-May
• Significance : Extensively cultivated everywhere for its fine fruits.