Mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica which is believed to have originated from the region between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh, and northeastern India. M. indica has been cultivated in South and Southeast Asia, resulting in two distinct modern mango cultivars: the "Indian type" and the "Southeast Asian type." Other species in the genus Mangifera also produce edible fruits called "mangoes," the majority of which are found in the Malesian ecoregion. Mango trees grow to 30–40 m tall, with a crown radius of 10–15 m. The trees are long-lived, as some specimens still fruit after 300 years. The ripe fruit varies according to the cultivar in size, shape, color, sweetness, and eating quality. Depending on the cultivar, fruits are variously yellow, orange, red, or green. The fruit has a single flat, oblong pit that can be fibrous or hairy on the surface and does not separate easily from the pulp. The fruits may be somewhat round, oval, or kidney-shaped, ranging from 5–25 centimeters in length and from 140 grams (5 oz) to 2 kilograms (5 lb) in weight per individual fruit. The skin is leather-like, waxy, smooth, and fragrant, with colors ranging from green to yellow, yellow-orange, yellow-red, or blushed with various shades of red, purple, pink, or yellow when fully ripe.

Fruits II

In botany, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering.

Fruits are how flowering plants disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits, in particular, have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food.