Mangifera similis

Blume

Pipit mango

AnacardiaceaeFruit

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

Fruit - raw. The yellow pulp is juicy but rather sour. Sweetly acid. The black, subglobose fruit can be 48 - 70mm long and 43 - 50mm in diameter, containing a single, large seed.

Where to Find It

A tropical plant. They grow in the humid tropics. It grows up to 150 m altitude.

Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, SE Asia,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A tree. It grows up to 32 m tall. The trunk can be 50-100 cm across. The leaves are oblong and 7-21 cm long by 3-9 cm wide. They are rough. The veins are distinct underneath. The leaf stalk is 1-4 cm long. The flowering stalks are 8-28 cm long. The flowers are greenish-white. The have a sweet scent. The fruit is smooth and round. It is 10 cm across. The skin is yellowish-green. The flesh is yellow. The seeds are 4 cm thick.

How to Grow

Plants can be grown from seeds.

Wikipedia

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Mangifera similis is a species of plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is endemic to Indonesia.

Production

In Sarawak it flowers July to August and fruits April and September to December.

Other Information

It is cultivated in Java. The fruit are sweet and acid.

Notes

There are about 40 Mangifera species. An unresolved name in The Plant List.

Names & Synonyms

Asam, Asem rawa, Kemantan, Lamantan, Pipit, Pohon mangga asem pipit, Pohon mangga asem rawa, Tajas

Mangifera torquenda Kosterm.

References (6)

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Kebler, P. J. A., & Kidiyasa, 1994, Trees of the Balikpapan-Samarinda area of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Tropenbos Foundation, Wageningen, The Netherlands. p 42
Milow, P., et al, 2013, Malaysian species of plants with edible fruits or seeds and their evaluation. International Journal of Fruit Science. 14:1, 1-27
Mus. bot. 1:200. 1850
PROSEA (Plant Resources of South East Asia) handbook, Volume 2, 1991, Edible fruits and nut. p 203
Sukarya, D. G., (Ed.) 2013, 3,500 Plant Species of the Botanic Gardens of Indonesia. LIPI p 383