Mango
आंबा
Mangifera indica L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 14 m
- wide
- 12 m
Anacardiaceae
Also called Indian mango, Mango tree, Amchur, Mangoso
Formerly Mangifera amba, Mangifera anisodora, Mangifera austroyunnanensis, Mangifera balba, and 18 more
When it flowers
Flowers July to October and December to March in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Assam to China (S. Yunnan)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 9.1 m to 18 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 15 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS pink, red, white, yellow; Wikipedia white
- Coldest it survives
- 1.7 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers April to June and November, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers April to June and November, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers April to June and November, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers April to June and November, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers April to June and November, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers April to June and November, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Mango
- Indonesian
- Mangga
- Portuguese
- Mangueira, Manga
- Chinese
- 芒果, 檬果, 菴婆羅
- French
- Manguier
- Hawaiian
- Manakō
- root
- કેરી, भारतीय आम, ଆମ୍ବ
- Swahili
- Mwembe
- Ukrainian
- Манго
- Thai
- มะม่วง
- Dutch
- Mango
- Finnish
- mangopuu
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Mangifera indica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.