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Mangifera andamanica

Mangifera andamanica
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0

Mangifera andamanica is a wild tropical tree in the cashew family, endemic to the Andaman Islands, and is not a common garden plant. It is grown mainly for conservation and research, and its small fruits are edible.

Family
Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while young and keep the soil moist but not waterlogged; reduce watering once established.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, loamy soil.
Temperature
20-32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Assam, Andaman Is.
Climate
wet tropical

About

Mangifera andamanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The fruits are edible and smaller than the Common Mango. This species is conserved at the Field Gene bank of Jawaharlal Neheru Tropical Botanic Garden and research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

Other Mangifera plants

Mangifera acutigemma · Pahutan · Mangifera applanata · Mangifera austroindica · Mangifera blommesteinii · Mangifera bullata · Binjai · Mangifera caloneura · Mangifera campnospermoides · Mangifera camptosperma · Kalimantan Mango · Mangifera collina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mangifera andamanica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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