Mangifera foetida
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Description
Tree 10-40 m high and 30-100 cm Ø.
Bark greenish or reddish brown, rough, fissured or scaly.
Leaves rigidly coriaceous, oblanceolate, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, 14-35 by 6-16 cm (in vegetative or sapling state up to 37-48 by 15-18½ cm);
Flowers pinkish or deep red, fragrant.
Petals narrowly lanceolate, 6-9 by 1ll2-2ll2 mm;
Stamens 5, 1 (rarely 2) fertile, 6-10 mm;
Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the uppermost leaf axil, pyramidal, 10-40 cm long. glabrous;
Ovary subglobose, 1-1½ mm ø, (ochraceous when fresh, cf. OCHSE & BAKH. l.c.);
Seed not labyrinthine.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present)
Thailand, Indo-China (Vietnam), and Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo.
Usually cultivated, also in these islands, but also elsewhere in Malesia.
Usually cultivated, also in these islands, but also elsewhere in Malesia.
Uses
CORNER l.c. says that the bachang can be told by stiff, dark-green leaves, like pieces of card-board, and by copper-red panicles with inodorous flowers, or by its stinking fruits, which are used in curries or pickles; the sweet variety is palatable raw and could be improved by selection. In flower, the bachang is the most beautiful Mangi-fera, with its upright panicles reminding of the horse-chestnut. Trees flower generally about March-April, and again in October in Singapore. It occurs common in orchards. See further HEYNE and BURKILL, ll.cc.; the latter noted some minor use of the sap for tattooing and medicinal.
Citation
WESTER 1920 – In: Bull. Bur. Agr. Philip.: 16
LAUT. 1921 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 354
Ridl. 1911 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 89
CRAIB 1926 – In: Fl. Siam. En.: 343
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 212
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 294
LECOMTE 1908 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 15
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 1402
HASSK. 1844 – In: Flora: 622
DC. 1825 – In: Prod.: 63
DE WIT 1959 – In: Rumph.: 386
K. & V. 1896 – In: Bijdr.: 88
Merr. 1935: Comm. Lour.: 160
KURZ 1877 – In: Fl. Burma: 305
MUKHERJI 1949: p. 120. – In: Lloydia: f. 24
Bl. 1850 – In: Mus. Bot.: 198
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 966
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 632
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 524
WARB. 1891 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 361
Ridl. 1933: Kew Bull.: 194
BACK. & BAKH. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 149
WILLD. 1797 – In: Sp. Pl.: 199
TARD. 1962 – In: Fl. C. L. & V.: 97
STEPHENS 1955 – In: Mal. For.: 205
Hook.f. 1876 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 18
BACK. 1907: Fl. Bat.: 363
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 109: f. 22, Atlas t. 10
Merr. 1917: Int. Rumph.: 329
OCHSE & BAKH. 1931: Fruit: 5: t. 3
Roxb. 1824 – In: Fl. Ind., ed. Wall: 440
SMYTHIES 1965: Common Sarawak Trees: 5: pl. 1
BUCH.-HAM. 1826 – In: Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. (Edinb.): 327
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 474
BACK. 1911: Schoolfl.: 278