A most delightful plant which grows in very restricted locations. It is considered as poorly known and is listed under conservation codes as Priority one View On Black
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.
Citrus limonlemon. A hybrid between bitter orange and citron, lemons were first grown in Southern China, Northern Burma, and Assam before the Common Era. They reached Southern Italy during the first century CE and were widespread throughout the Mediterranean basin by 1100 CE. Columbus introduced them to the New World in 1493. An important commercial crop elsewhere in California, lemons are grown in the San Francisco Bay Area as specimen garden trees. The ones photographed have yet to ripen. Photographed in a private garden in Berkeley, CA.