Beautiful Shots of Mango Tree On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:13 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote:
> For completeness sake let me add these trees also. > > It is a matter of astonishment to many that the delicious mango, one of > the most celebrated of Indian fruits, is a member of the family > Anacardiaceae notorious for embracing a number of highly poisonous plants. > The mango tree is erect, 30 to 100 ft high, with a broad, rounded canopy > which may, with age, attain 100 to 125 ft in width, or a more upright, > oval, relatively slender crown. In deep soil, the taproot descends to a > depth of 20 ft, the profuse, wide-spreading, feeder root system also sends > down many anchor roots which penetrate for several feet. The tree is > long-lived, some specimens being known to be 300 years old and still > fruiting. Nearly evergreen, alternate leaves are borne mainly in rosettes > at the tips of the branches and numerous twigs from which they droop like > ribbons on slender petioles 1 to 4 in long. Hundreds and even as many as > 3,000 to 4,000 small, yellowish or reddish flowers, 25% to 98% male, the > rest hermaphroditic, are borne in profuse, showy, erect, pyramidal, > branched clusters 2 1/2 to 15 1/2 in high. There is great variation in the > form, size, color and quality of the fruits. They may be nearly round, > oval, ovoid-oblong, or somewhat kidney-shaped, often with a break at the > apex, and are usually more or less lop-sided. > > Raman > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
