Heritage Tree - Belinjau (Mangifera caesia) @Botanic Gardens (2022 0429)
Family Name: Anacardiaceae
Synonyms: Mangifera kemanga Blume
Common Name: jack,
white mango, binjai (Malay language), wani (Balinese language), yaa-lam (Thai
language), bayuno/baluno/belunok (Filipino language) and mangga wani (Cebuano
language)
Flowers Its violet to lilac flowers are up to 1
cm long each, borne on a branched inflorescences up to 40 cm long.
Fruits Its fleshy fruits are pear-shaped drupes, that
ripen to pale brown, 10-19 cm long and 5-10 cm wide, containing a single pink
seed enclosed with a hard endocarp.
Native: widely
cultivated in areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Papua New Guinea
and the Philippines.
This Specimen
was grown from seeds collected from Lower Peirce Reservoir by Mr J.F. Maxwell
in February 1982.
Locate: Botanic Gardens
Getting There:
MRT Botanic Gardens (CC19/DT9) Exit A
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