(a) IDENTIFICATION
Local
name: Mangoro (Igbo)
Common
name: Mango
Botanical
name: Magnifera indica
Family: Anarcadiaceal
Habit: It is found within the environment and Plantations
(b) MORPHOLOGY
Habit:
This is a big or medium sized evergreen tree the bark is brown, rough and bitter.
The branches profusely with p
ale green and hairless twigs the leaves are
petiolate and alternate in arrangement the petals are spreading and five in umber,
five stamens, one fertile and other four shorter and sterile, borne on a disk.
They are aromatic fruits (drupes) on hanging stalks are mostly long, slightly narrowed
towards apex and a little flattened, soft at maturity. The yellow flesh is thin
and Yuicy. The seeds are lattened and hard.
(c) UTILIZATION
It is used in curing malaria, cough, and
dysentery. In the case of malaria the stem bark combined with guava leaves and
pawpaw leaves, these are put inside a pot making sure that the mango leaves
come first, followed by pawpaw and guava leaves respectively and they are
cooked for about four hours to make sure that the curing components of these
plants are fully dissolved n water and the patient then takes half a cup of the
infusion first thing in the morning. In the case of dysentery, both leaves and
bark are used this is prepared by cooking for a long and the infusion is taken
as used.
(d) CONSERVATION
It is an aromatic and granular tree. It is a
cultivated plant found mainly in orchards and compounds. It is grown and
protected for its medicinal value.