Common name: "Mango" which may derive from the word Tamil (mangai), which was used in Portuguese for the first time at the beginning of the 16th century, and from Portuguese then passed to English becoming "Mango". have evidence of the cultivation of "mango" already many centuries BC, and then pass in the tenth century in Africa (east) by the Persians and finally by the Portuguese, in the sixteenth century, west of Africa and then in Brazil until to arrive in the rest of the world around the 18th century.
One of the most used tropical fruits par excellence.
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