Mangifera indica - Mango Tree

❏ Binomial Name : Mangifera indica L.

❏ Synonym : Mangifera amba, Mangifera sativa, Mangifera racemosa

❏ Family : Anacardiaceae

❏ Common Name : Mango Tree

❏ Tamil Name : Maa, Manga,Mamaram

❏ Hindi Name : Manako

❏ IUCN Status: Data Deficient

Mangifera indica Botanical Description

Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark 2-2.5 cm, dark grey, rough with vertical fissures; blaze yellow; exudation yellowish, gummy. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 10-75 mm long, stout, glabrous, pulvinate; lamina 9.2-40 x 2.5-8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, linear-oblong, base attenuate or acute, apex acuminate, acute or obtusely acute, margin entire, glabrous, shiny, coriaceous; lateral nerves 14-28 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, yellowish-green, in terminal panicles; pedicels jointed; bract deciduous; calyx 4-5 partite, ovate, imbricate, hairy without, cauducous; petals 4-5, oblong-obovate, subequal, nerves at base gland crested, free or adnate to the disc; disc fleshy, cupular, 4-5 lobed; stamens 4-5, inserted inside or on the disc, fertile stamens 1 or 2; filaments free, glabrous; staminodes gland-tipped; ovary sessile, superior, oblique, 1-celled, ovule pendulous; style lateral; stigma simple. Fruit a drupe, 5-15 cm long, oblong-reniform, compressed, yellowish-red, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp fibrous; seed subreniform. Fl. &Fr.: March – June.

Mangifera indica Medicinal uses

❀ Fruit are edible and One of the most popular fruits in the world

❀ An infusion is drunk to reduce blood pressure and as a treatment for conditions such as angina, asthma, coughs and diabetes

❀ The bark Used in the treatment of haemorrhage, diarrhoea and throat problems

❀ The stem is astringent. It is used to treat diarrhoea and to remedy stomach-ache

❀ The fruit is antiscorbutic and antidysenteric.

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