Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Mangifera indica
Common name
Mango
Family
Anacardiaceae
Where found
Near habitations. Coastal north of Wollongong.
Notes
Introduced tree to 25 m high with a dense rounded crown. Fruit fleshy. Branchlets almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes opposite each other or clustered at the ends of the branchlets, mostly 10–30 cm long, 20–70 mm wide, hairless, more or less leathery, margins entire and more or less wavy, tips pointed or blunt. Flowers bisexual and male on the same plant. Flowers reddish or yellowish, about 4-5 mm in diameter, usually with 5 petals. Flowers in branched clusters mostly 10–25 cm long. Fruit yellow to reddish, obliquely oval, mostly 10-15 cm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Mangifera~indica (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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