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Mangifera foetida
Also called Horse Mango, Bachang Mango, Gray Mango
In Singapore: Horse Mango, Bacang, Bachang, Machang, Machai, Membacang (Native to Singapore, Critically Endangered)
2 NParks heritage trees in Singapore: Found in Canning Rise, opposite lamp-post 7; Found in MacRitchie Reservoir Park, near Public Utilities Board office
Bachang (Mangifera foetida) is a large tropical fruit tree in the cashew family, native to wet lowland rainforests of Southeast Asia. It is grown for its strongly scented fruit, and seedlings are used as rootstock for other mangoes; it needs a hot, humid, frost-free climate.
Mangifera foetida (also called horse mango, malmut, limus, bachang, machang, and kemantan in Borneo) is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is found in wet-land rainforest regions of Borneo, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
In Indonesia, the unripe fruit (after being washed with salt water) is used in vegetable salads (rujak) and in sour pickle (acar). The ripe fruit can also be used to extract the juices or made into jam.
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[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mangifera foetida 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.
