Mango
Mango is one of the most popular tropical fruits in the world and is often known as the "apple of the tropics". Mango fruits are usually eaten ripe, when they are soft and sweet. But some people prefer them unripe, when they are harder with a more sour taste.
Basic information on mango
| Scientific name: | Mangifera indica |
| English: | Mango Common mango |
| Dutch: | Mango Manga |
| Spanish: | Mango |
| French: | Manguier Mangue Fruit du manguier |
| German: | Mango Mangobaum Mangofrucht |
| Italian: | Mango |
| Family: | Anacardiac |
| Origin: | Southern Asia, Burma, eastern India |
| Distribution: | All tropical regions of the world. |
| Evergreen or deciduous: | Evergreen |
| Flowers: | Yellowish or creamy color |
| Leaves: | Dark green above and pale below. Flushes of young leaves are usually reddish or yellowish. |
| Climate and weather: | Lowland tropical and subtropical areas. Requires a frost-free climate. Must have warm dry weather to set fruit. |
| Pollination: | Pollination by flies, hoverflies, bees. High humidity and rain will result in poor pollination. Mango trees are monoecious and self-fertile. |
| Height: | 10-15 meter (but sometimes higher) |
| Crown size: | 4-7 meter (or even bigger) |
| Blooming period | December-January (Thailand) |
| Type of soil: | Any well-drained soil. |
| Preferred pH: | 5.5 - 7.5 |
| Moisture: | Moderate. Avoid wet soils. |
| Light: | Full-day sunlight |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Spacing (close range) | 4 meter |
| Spacing (wide range) | 8 meter |
| Canopy: | Often broad and rounded. Good as a shade tree. |
| Propagation: | Grafting of selected cultivars on seedling rootstocks |
| Insect pests: | Scales, mealybugs, mites, psyllids, fruit flies. |
| Diseases: | Powdery mildew on flowers, bacterial spot on leaves and fruits, anthracnose |
| Fruit development: | From flowering to maturity takes 100-150 days. |
| Harvesting: | Pick mangos when fully ripe off the tree. |
| Uses: | Eat as a dessert fruit. Also used to produce juice, jam or jelly. Unripe fruits can be used to prepare pickles or chutney.   |
Proverbs about mango
- An ant guarding a mango.
- Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.
- If you don't eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong enough to pick ones on the tree.
- Mango among fruits, pork among meats, tea among leaves.
- You don't throw rocks at a green mango.
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