Light mango
Light mango
Light mango
Common name : Mango
Scientific name : Mangifera indica L.Var.
Family name : ANACARDIACEAE
Other name : Purple mango.
This mango is native to the south. It is native to Malaysia and southern Thailand. Popular to grow and eat since ancient times. Planted in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province continuously until Yala Province by The most fruitful in April of every year. But for a short time It has a unique sour taste that is different from the sour taste of other fruits. If it is a pure breed The taste will be more mellow and fragrant. Prefer to eat the shell or thin casing.
Botanical characteristics:
A small to medium-sized perennial, 5-10 m tall, canopy 3-6 m. Not deciduous, spherical, low branching. The bark is yellowish brown. The bark is smooth, cracks and shallow along the length.
Blade : Leaves single leaves, opposite, alternate perpendicular Oval-shaped, lanceolate, 5-7 cm wide, 15-25 cm long, soft tip, pointed tip, smooth, slightly wavy. The leaves are thin, but quite sticky and wrinkled. Glossy bright green leaves light purple red or bluish purple. Petioles 2-4 cm long.
Flower : It’s yellowish green. The inflorescence is 20-30 cm long, 5 calyx, oval, light green, connected to the peduncle, 5 petals, parallel-edged or oval, with 10 male stamens. Flower diameter 0.5-0.7 cm.
Fruit : Fresh fruit with a single seed pulp, flat spherical, wide base, then examined at the end of the fruit, 3.5-4 cm long, 4.5-5.5 cm long, smooth skin, smooth, glossy, bright green when ripe, yellowish green.
Seed : thick, hard, fibrous coat, sour and sweet taste. Kidney-shaped seeds Big yellowish brown Flowering and fruiting throughout the year. Very flowering from January to May, propagated by seeds.
Benefits :
Southern region prefer to use raw fruit for food rather than taking advantage of ripe fruit, preferring to use it in spicy and sour soup, to make papaya salad, mango, sweet fish sauce, or processed
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