. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Mango 615 VI. MANGO GENUS MANGIFERA LINN^US Species Mangifera indica Linnaeus HIS tropical Asiatic evergreen tree is now cultivated in all tropical countries for its fruit and has become naturalized in many places. In Florida it has become estabhshed in hammocks on the peninsula and on some of the Keys. It reaches a maximum height of about 21 meters, with a trunk diameter of meters, often buttressed at the base. The b
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Mango 615 VI. MANGO GENUS MANGIFERA LINN^US Species Mangifera indica Linnaeus HIS tropical Asiatic evergreen tree is now cultivated in all tropical countries for its fruit and has become naturalized in many places. In Florida it has become estabhshed in hammocks on the peninsula and on some of the Keys. It reaches a maximum height of about 21 meters, with a trunk diameter of meters, often buttressed at the base. The branches are numerous and outspreading, forming a dense round head. The bark is rather rough and gray. The twigs are slender, smooth, and of a pur- phsh red tinge. The persistent leaves are alternate, thick and leathery, oblong- lanceolate to lanceolate, 15 to 25 cm. long, blunt, sharp or taper-pointed, tapering at the base, en- tire on the margin, dark green and shining, with impressed venation above, scarcely paler, smooth and prominently veined beneath, the leaf-stalk grooved, thickened at the base and about cm. long. The flowers are produced in large terminal compound panicles, in great numbers; it is said that 2100 individual flowers have been counted in a single panicle; the flower stalks are densely covered with yellow hairs. The calyx is s-parted; petals 5, rarely 4, inserted at the base of a 4- or 5-lobed disk; stamens 4 or 5, only i or 2 of which bear anthers; ovary i-celled with a single ascend- ing ovule; style simple and curved. The fruit, which is abundantly produced in pendulous clus- ters, is a usually kidney-shaped drupe 10 to cm. long, the skin smooth, light green, yellow or reddish; the flesh is soft, juicy, acidulous and aromatic; the large stone is covered with a coat of coarse fibers, which extend into the flesh; the kernel is bean-shaped, nearly white; all portions of the tree have an aromatic turpentine-Uke odor. It is largely cultivated for its
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