A very large mango

wahyu (46)in #food • 7 years ago

Mango or Diving is the name of a kind of fruit, as well as the name of the tree. Mango belongs to the clan Mangifera, which consists of 35-40 members and Anacardiaceae tribe. Its scientific name is Mangifera indica.

Mango trees include high-level plants whose stem structure (habitus) belongs to the arboreus group, ie woody plants having a stem height greater than 5 m. Mango can reach a height of 10-40 m.

The name of this fruit comes from Malayalam maanga. It is paired in Indonesian into mango; And on the other hand, it was brought to Europe by the Portuguese and absorbed into manga (Portuguese), mango (English) and others. Its own scientific name roughly means: "(trees) that bear fruit of mango, originating from India".

Originally from around the Indian border with Burma, mangoes have spread to Southeast Asia at least since 1500 years ago. The fruit is also known in various regional languages, such as pelem or poh (Jw.).