Mangifera sylvatica (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Mangifera sylvatica Roxb.

Family: Anacardiaceae

• Burma: hseng-neng-thayet
• Thailand: muang-kluai, ma-muang-pa.

India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia.

The small fruits are edible with sweet and sour taste.

• 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.

• Mukherjee, S.K., 1985. Systematic and ecogeographic studies on crop genepools 1. Mangifera L. IBPGR, Rome. 86 pp.

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen