Mangifera kemanga

Mangifera kemanga

PLANT | Mangifera kemanga | Mangifera kemanga A large evergreen tree, upto 30 m tall, and bole 50-80(-120) cm or more in diameter, crown dome-shaped with massive branches; bark greyish-brown, superficially fissured, containing irritant sap.
Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, more or less obovate, (7-)10-12(-30) cm x (3-)4-5.5(-10) cm, medium green and shiny above, paler below, often crowded at the end of stout branchlets, coriaceous, blunt or bluntly acuminate; midrib thick, flattened, raised abovet; petiole very short, leaves nearly sub-sessile, margins narrowly decurrent. .

Panicle terminal, long, upto 75 cm long, containing fewer flowers; flowers 5-merous, pale lilac, fragrant; petals linear, up to 10 mm long, not strongly reflexed as in most other mango flowers, only slightly reflexed in the upper part; fertile stamen 1, filament 5 mm long, white at base, purple towards the apex, 4 teeth-like staminodes; disc narrow, stipe-like, 1-1.5 mm long, pale green; ovary obliquely globose, reddish brown, style excentric, 8 mm long, white, becoming violet after anthesis.

Mangifera kemanga

Kemang is generally grown in lowland wet tropical areas below an altitude of 400 m above sea level. and rarely to a height of 800m above sea level. These plants require an equitable distribution of rainfall throughout the year and grows well on the outskirts of the river regularly flooded.