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Taproot Leaves Evergreen Flowers Panicles

Mango trees can grow up to 40 meters tall and live for over 300 years. Their leaves are evergreen, alternate, and range from 5-35 cm in length. Mango trees produce small, white flowers in terminal panicles 10-40 cm long that have a mild, sweet fragrance. The fruit takes 4-5 months from flowering to ripen and comes in many varieties that differ in size, shape, color, sweetness and other qualities.

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Taproot Leaves Evergreen Flowers Panicles

Mango trees can grow up to 40 meters tall and live for over 300 years. Their leaves are evergreen, alternate, and range from 5-35 cm in length. Mango trees produce small, white flowers in terminal panicles 10-40 cm long that have a mild, sweet fragrance. The fruit takes 4-5 months from flowering to ripen and comes in many varieties that differ in size, shape, color, sweetness and other qualities.

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Mango trees grow to 35–40 m (115–131 ft) tall, with a crown radius of 10 m (33 ft).

The trees are long-lived, as


some specimens still fruit after 300 years.[14] In deep soil, the taproot descends to a depth of 6 m (20 ft), with
profuse, wide-spreading feeder roots and anchor roots penetrating deeply into the
soil.[1] The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple, 15–35 cm (5.9–13.8 in) long, and 6–16 cm (2.4–6.3 in)
broad; when the leaves are young they are orange-pink, rapidly changing to a dark, glossy red, then dark green
as they mature.[1] The flowers are produced in terminal panicles 10–40 cm (3.9–15.7 in) long; each flower is
small and white with five petals 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long, with a mild, sweet fragrance.[1] Over 500 varieties
of mangoes are known,[1] many of which ripen in summer, while some give a double crop.[15]The fruit takes four
to five months from flowering to ripen.[1]
The ripe fruit varies in size, shape, color, sweetness, and eating quality.[1] Cultivars are variously yellow,
orange, red, or green, and carry a single flat, oblong pit that can be fibrous or hairy on the surface, and which
does not separate easily from the pulp.[1] The fruits may be somewhat round, oval, or kidney-shaped, ranging
from 5–25 centimetres (2–10 in) in length and from 140 grams (5 oz) to 2 kilograms (5 lb) in weight per
individual fruit.[1] The skin is leather-like, waxy, smooth, and fragrant, with color ranging from green to yellow,
yellow-orange, yellow-red, or blushed with various shades of red, purple, pink or yellow when fully ripe.[1]
Ripe intact mangoes give off a distinctive resinous, sweet smell.[1] Inside the pit 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) thick
is a thin lining covering a single seed, 4–7 cm (1.6–2.8 in) long. Mangoes have recalcitrant seeds which do not
survive freezing and drying.[16] Mango trees grow readily from seeds, with germination success highest when
seeds are obtained from mature fruits.[1]

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