ratio depending upon the cultivar. Hermaphrodite flowers are small (5–10 mm diameter), pentamerous (rarely 4 or 7 sepals and petals), with green sepals and petals pinkish white in colour, with only one functional stamen and four staminodes, and one-celled ovary attached to a nectary disc, with one lateral style, and a simple stigma. The male flower is essentially the same with the absence of the ovary. Flowers reach full bloom in 25–30 days after initiation. The fruit is a drupe variable in size, shape, colour and weight (200 g – 2 kg). Fruit possess a single seed, either monoembrionico polyembrionic, enclosed in a hard endocarp with fibres extending into the flesh. It covers mango species growing in very dry areas, like