It covers mango species growing in very dry areas, like savannahs; species growing on inundated lands; at altitudes over 1000 m in the tropics and at higher latitudes outside the tropics; under monsoon climate conditions and under constantly wet conditions; and so-called wild species that compete in flavor with the common mango.( E. Yahia) The mango fruit is a fleshy drupe, consisting of skin (epicarp) and edible flesh (mesocarp) surrounding a fi brous, hard stone (endocarp) containing a single seed. The seed may be either monoembryonic or polyembryonic, with fruit of the former classified as Indian and the latter as Indo-Chinese (Yahia et al. , 2006a).