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Mangifera zeylanica
Mangifera zeylanica or “Sri Lanka Wild Mango” is a wild species of mango tree endemic to Sri Lanka. This stately tree is the tallest member of the Mango or Mangifera genus and one of the two tallest trees in the Anacardiaceae family. The mango fruits are edible and have an excellent taste. It is called "Aetamba" (ඇටඹ) or "Wal Amba" in Sinhala and “Kaddu-ma” in Tamil. The well-known British botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker first...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 424178.