Mangifera foetida

Mango tree ( Mangifera foetida )

The Stinking Mango ( Mangifera foetida ) is a commonly cultivated in Southeast Asia type of mangoes ( Mangifera ) and is one of the Sumachgewächsen ( Anacardiaceae ).

Features

The Stinking mango grows as up to 35 meters tall tree with straight trunk without buttresses. The slightly textured bark is light brown to dark gray - brown. You are in breach from a whitish juice that is fast black and is strongly irritating to the skin. The dense leafy canopy is supported by strong branches. The leaves are elliptic - ovate to broadly elliptic, leathery and 15 to 40 centimeters long and 9-15 centimeters wide. Your tip is slightly pointed, sometimes rounded or notched. Your top is strong dark green, the underside lighter. The petiole is strong, 1.5 to eight inches long and thickened at the base. They are used in traditional medicine as an antipyretic.

The inflorescences are upright, pyramidal panicles dichtblütige of ten to 14 centimeters in length. The flowers are strongly reddish -pink, fünfzählig and duftarm. The sepals are oblong- ovate and four to five millimeters long, the petals narrow - lanceolate in six to nine millimeters long, pale at the base and yellowish at the top. The stamens are dark purple. The ovary is approximately spherical, yellow and wearing a white, six to seven millimeters long stylus.

The fruit is an oval to almost spherical, olive - green to yellow stone fruit from seven to 16 centimeters in length. The flesh is always fibrous and depending on the variety acidic with a strong turpentine odor or with a mild sweet flavor. Sweet varieties are eaten as a fruit, while the others are used in pickles, chutneys and curries. The unripe fruit is similar lovely as the output from the bark juice, at the ripe fruit only the skin is lovely, so that eating after peeling is possible. The seeds are used to treat trichophytosis, scabies and eczema.

Origin and Distribution

The Stinking mango is native to the humid lowland rain forests of the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia. It is cultivated in Southeast Asia at altitudes of 1000 m.

Swell

• Template: Internet resource / maintenance / access date is not in the ISO FormatMangifera foetida. In: AgroForestryTree Database. Accessed on 21 November 2008.
• J. Morton: mango. In: Julia F. Morton (ed.): Fruits of Warm climates. Miami, 1987, pp. 221-239 (online, accessed on 21 November 2008).