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Mango

Mangifera indica

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About Mango

Mango (Mangifera indica) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native from the Indian subcontinent to Myanmar and widely cultivated through the tropics. It grows as a canopy tree in seasonally dry tropical settings and also persists around disturbed mesic vegetation. On Kauaʻi, checklist and dated forest-reserve survey evidence document naturalized trees, but neither source measures current abundance or ecological effects.

Kauaʻi evidence

Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. The 1918–1959 Kauaʻi reforestation working register records 314 plants under Mangifera indica across 6 entries dated 1932–1958. These are recorded planting quantities, not counts of surviving trees, and they do not by themselves establish current persistence, naturalization, or ecological impact. Source: Kauaʻi Reforestation Plantings 1918–1959 working register (user-supplied; reconciled 6 October 2026).

Names and classification

Scientific name: Mangifera indica
Common names: Mango
Other names: Mangifera indica · Mango
Record type: Species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence: Recorded on Kauaʻi
Origin: Introduced
Conservation status: Not yet assessed
Evidence date: 2026-10-06
Evidence limits: Present island-wide abundance, occupied habitat, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects have not been quantified; no invasive severity is inferred from checklist or forestry status.

Habitat and ecology

Habitats: Not yet assessed
Food and resource needs: Not yet assessed
Reproduction: Terminal panicles bear many small flowers, only a fraction of which mature into animal-dispersed drupes. Successful recruitment requires pollination, fruit maturation, movement or deposition of the large stone, and seedling establishment; Kauaʻi-specific phenology and recruitment rates are unmeasured.
Shelter: Not yet assessed
Growth form: Tree

Threats and conservation

Monitoring: Not yet assessed
Data gaps: Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal timing: Not yet assessed
Seasonal description: Mango (Mangifera indica) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native from the Indian subcontinent to Myanmar and widely cultivated through the tropics. It grows as a canopy tree in seasonally dry tropical settings and also persists around disturbed mesic vegetation. On Kauaʻi, checklist and dated forest-reserve survey evidence document naturalized trees, but neither source measures current abundance or ecological effects.

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