Tree Id confirmation : Spondias mangifera : 13May2008Raghu2

[raghu ananth]

Family: Anacardiaceae

Spondias mangifera

Local Name: Amate

Number of Spondias mangifera trees spotted : 4

Location: Chandagal Village, Mysore dist.

Habitat: coconut and areca farm

Date Spotted: 6 April 2008

Flowering: No

Fruiting: No

 

The fruits of this tree are used in making pickles.

This particular tree species in this habitat appear huge and have reached great heights.

 

Regards

Raghu

 

 

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[J.M. Garg]

Spondias mangifera is a Synonym of Spondias pinnata . Here are some extracts from Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondias

Spondias is a genus of flowering plants of the family Anacardiaceae. The genus consists of 17 described species, 7 of which are native to the Neotropics and about 10 are native to tropical Asia.

Spondias dulcis, fruit, section and seed

They are deciduous or semi-evergreen trees growing to 25 m tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, pinnate, rarely bipinnate or simple. The fruit is a drupe similar to a small mango (in the related genus Mangifera), 4-10 cm long, ripening yellow or orange.

About 10 species of Spondias bear edible fruits and have been domesticated for fruit production. The fruit has a single seed.

The name of the city of Bangkok, Thailand is believed to derive from makok (มะกอก), the Thai name for the fruit of Spondias mombin.

Selected species

• Spondias dulcis Tahitian apple
• Spondias haplophylla
• Spondias indica
• Spondias lakonensis
• Spondias mombin - yellow mombin, hog plum, Java plum
• Spondias pinnata
• Spondias purpurea - red mombin, Spanish plum
• Spondias radlkoferi
• Spondias tuberosa - umbú
• Spondias venulosa

 

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