Mangifera sylvatica
Roxburgh
Winter mango
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
Unripe fruit are sliced and used for tarts, pickles, jellies, and curries—they are acidic. Ripe fruit are eaten raw like mangoes.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant. They grow in the humid tropics. It is native to the eastern Himalayas. It grows in forests along streams in southern China. In Sikkim it grows between 500-1,000 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
Andamans, Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Himalayas, India, Indochina, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Northeastern India, SE Asia, Sikkim, Thailand,
How to Identify
A large tree. It grows 20-45 m tall. The leaves are stiff. They are 15-20 cm long and 3-6 cm wide. The flowers are yellow, pink or red. They do not have an odour. They are in groups at the ends of branches. The fruit are yellow. They are 8-16 cm long. There are both sweet and tart kinds. The fruit hang on the tree in winter.
Medicinal Uses
The dried fruit is used medicinally.
Other Uses
The wood is a source of 'machang' timber. We do not have a specific description for the wood of this speices, but a general description of machang timber is as follows:- The heartwood is light brown or light grey brown, occasionally with chocolate or black streaky coreword; it is not clearly differentiated from the wide band of sapwood. The texture is moderately coarse to coarse and even; the grain interlocked and wavy. The wood is moderately heavy to heavy; moderately hard; not durable under exposed conditions, being susceptible to fungi, dry wood borers and termites. The wood seasons somewhat rapidly with only a slight risk of checking or distortion; once dry it is moderately stable in service. It can be worked with ordinary tools, there is a slight difficulty resawing when green, but is easy when dry; planing is easy but the surface produced is moderately smooth with grain pick-up on the radial side; nailing and screwing is excellent; gluing is correct. The wood is suitable for light construction, turnery, flooring, interior panelling, boxes, crates, pallets and plywood manufacture. Corewood can be used for decorative veneer production.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Mangifera sylvatica, also known as the Himalayan mango, pickling mango, or Nepal mango, is a species of plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Yunnan), India (Assam, Darjeeling, Sikkim), Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and Thailand. It is a tree 6–20 m (20–66 ft) tall. The fruit measures 6 cm–8 cm × 4 cm–5 cm (2.4 in–3.1 in × 1.6 in–2.0 in).
Production
In SE Asia plants flower January to March and September to October and fruit May to June and December to January. A tree can produce 50 kg of fruit a year.
Notes
There are about 40 Mangifera species.
Names & Synonyms
Aanp, Amtsukuli, Arem titi, Ban-am, Bon am, Chetchetsu, Chuchche aarp, Chuche anp, Chuckey amp, Chuchiam, Dong lao miu, Gam thaihai, Haibamin, Hnamba chi, Jangali aamp, Jangli, Jat aam, Jharbuo aam, Jungali amp, Kathorkung, Kho-maeng-saa, Lagulamjio, Lakshi am, Lakshmi am, Mak-mong-sang-yip, Mamen, Mamnang ki tai, Mamuang paep, Mong wo, Motum toggu, Siminthayet, Sinna-thayet, Som muang kluai, Tagol, Tagung, Taw-thayet, Thaichual, Thaiju mairong, Uriaam, Uri am, Vekek, Yumrang kedi
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