Mangifera sylvatica (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Mangifera sylvatica Roxb.
- Family: Anacardiaceae
Vernacular names
- Burma: hseng-neng-thayet
- Thailand: muang-kluai, ma-muang-pa.
Distribution
India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia.
Uses
The small fruits are edible with sweet and sour taste.
Observations
Tree, up to 24 m tall. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous. Flowers white, 1 fertile stamen. Fruit an ovoid drupe, beaked, smaller than the common mango, yellow, fibrous. In lowland primary and secondary forests on hillsides, flowering in January-March and September-October, fruiting in May-June and in December-January.
Selected sources
57.