Mangifera indica L. | |
Anacardiaceae | |
Maamaram | |
| Botanical Name | Mangifera indica L. |
| Synonyms | Mangifera amba. Forsk.; Mangifera viridis. Boj.; Mangifera rubra Boj. |
| Family | Anacardiaceae |
| Common Name | English: Mango / Tamil : Maamaram |
| Distribution | Global : India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China and Malasiya Indian: Throughout India. |
| Description | Evergreen trees up to 30 m height. dark grey bark with rough and vertical fissures, exudation yellowish, gummy. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; petiole long, stout, glabrous and pulvinate, elliptic, margin entire. Inflorescence panicle raceme. Flowers polygamous, yellowish-green, in terminal panicles; pedicels jointed; bract deciduous; calyx 4-5 partite, ovate, imbricate, hairy, 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, oblong-reniform, compressed, yellowish-red, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp fibrous and seed subreniform. |
| Flowering Fruiting period | February - March and May - June |
| Uses | Fruit Edible and commercially cultivated. Plant used as mosquitos Repellent. Wood used for construction, furniture, carpentry, box and crate making. |
| Medicinal Uses | Antiseptic, astringent, diaphoretic, stomachic, vermifuge, tonic, laxative and diuretic. |
| Tamil Name | Maamaram |
