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  • COMMON NAME: Indian mango, Mango, Mango Tree.
  • ARABIC: مانجو
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Mangifera indica L.
  • SYNONYMS: Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. typicum Luckwill, Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) H.Karst., Solanum lycopersicum var. esculentum (Mill.) Voss
  • FAMILY: ANACARDIACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Fruits (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). very often cultivated as a fruit tree in the gardens of Fujairah.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:69913-1#synonyms http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000371248 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Food plant, ornamental.
Trees, 10-20 m tall; branchlets brown, glabrous. Petiole 2-6 cm, grooved apically, inflated basally; leaf blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 12-30 × 3.5-6.5 cm, leathery, deep green adaxially, light green abaxially, glabrous on both sides, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire, undulate, apex acute to long acuminate, lateral veins 20-25 pairs, midrib prominent on both sides, reticulate venation obscure. Inflorescence paniculate, terminal, 20-35 cm, glabrous to tomentose-pilose; bracts ca. 1.5 mm, lanceolate pubescent. Pedicels 1.5-3 mm, articulate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-3 × ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous to pubescent, acuminate. Petals light yellow with prominent red tree-shaped pattern adaxially, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 3.5-4 × ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous, recurved at anthesis. Fertile stamen 1, ca. 2.5 mm, with ovate anther; staminodes 4, 0.7-1 mm. Disk inflated, fleshy, 5-lobed. Ovary oblique, ovate, ca. 1.5 mm in diam. at anthesis; style ca. 2.5 mm, eccentric. Drupe oblong to subreniform, greenish yellow to red, 5-10 × 3-4.5 cm; fleshy mesocarp bright yellow; endocarp ± compressed. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jul.
Cultivated, Grows in gardens, parks, homes and farms.
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