Mangifera indica

Common Name – Mango

Botanical name– Mangifera indica

Habit-

• Evergreen
• Large tree
• Medium growth rate

Specific properties

• Preferred for soil reclamation, land restoration
• Tree tolerates disturbance, drought, and occasional flooding
• Pioneer species
  
  

Ecology

• Bees and butterflies visit the flowers for nectar
• Fruits are relished and dispersed by birds, rodents, civets, bats, primates, elephants, and humans alike
• Larval host plant for Common Baron, Monkey Puzzle, White edged Blue Baron, Common Imperial butterfly
  
  

Uses

• Mango possesses anti-diabetic, antioxidant, anti-viral, cardiotonic, hypotensive, anti-inflammatory properties. Most parts of the tree are used medicinally
• Tree parts are used to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, anaemia, asthma, bronchitis, cough, hypertension, insomnia, rheumatism, toothache, leucorrhoea, haemorrhage, piles

abscesses, rabid dog or jackal bite, tumour, snakebite, stings, datura poisoning, miscarriage, anthrax, blisters, wounds in the mouth, tympanitis, colic, glossitis, indigestion, bloody dysentery, liver disorders, excessive urination, tetanus, and asthma

• Raw and ripe fruits are eaten and used to make pickle and jam, juice etc
• The juice is invigorating, used as restorative tonic in heat stroke
• Slender branches are used as toothbrushes to treat toothache
• Gum is used in dressings for cracked feet and for scabies
• Bark and the leaves produce yellowish-brown dye used for silk dying
• Good for agroforestry: as shade tree, holds soil

Propagation

• Seeds