The mottled trunk of the Ron-ron Tree, a species endangered due to is valuable, reddish wood. Photo from Indio Maiz Reserve, southeastern Nicaragua.In context at www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/sapandales/index.html
Fruit of the Litre tree. This species is one of the major constituents of what is left of the native forests of central Chile, but it can cause a rash on some people.
Family: AnacardiaceaeDistribution: Native of India. Cultivated through out tropics for fruit. Mango tree are large spreading. Flowers small 4-6mm across, produced in large terminal panicles.Flower polygamous, pedicel jointed. bract deciduous; sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous, petals 5, free or adnate to the disk. petals are ornamented inside with lobed yellow or brown colored glandular scales. Disk fleshy,5 lobed; stamens 5, only one fertile, remaining sterile; ovary sessile 1 celled, style lateral, stigma simple. Photographed at Nellore of India.
Male flowers of the mango tree (Mangifera indica) usually have a total of 5 stamens, but only one stamen fully develops. The other type of flower is hermaphrodite (one pistil and one developed stamen).