Mangifera macrocarpa (PROSEA)
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Mangifera macrocarpa Blume
- Family: Anacardiaceae
Synonyms
Mangifera fragrans Maingay ex Hook.f.
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: gompohr, kipari (Java), haju (Sumatra)
- Malaysia: macang api, macang lavid (Peninsular), kayu basinku (Sabah).
Distribution
Peninsular Thailand, Cambodia, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Java and Borneo. Sometimes also cultivated.
Uses
The fruits are large and edible.
Observations
Tree, up to 37 m tall. Leaves linear to lanceolate, 9-60 cm × 1-5 cm, chartaceous. Stamens 5, 1 fertile. Fruit an obliquely, broadly oblong-globose drupe, 8-12 cm long, flesh yellow, fibrous. In lowlands and on hill ridges in primary forests, flowering between October and January, fruiting between October and April, but flowering occurs very rarely. The phenology needs better investigation.
Selected sources
7, 57, 93.
