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Mango
आम (aam)
A dense dark evergreen that shades courtyards, temple tanks and village roads, and flowers with a cloud of tiny cream blossom before the hot season.
How to recognise it
Long narrow leathery leaves, coppery red when new, and a crown so dense it is dark underneath at noon.
Where to see it
Chandigarh
The state tree of Chandigarh, and the tree the Mughal garden at Pinjore was laid out around: the mango terraces there predate the modern city by three centuries.
Pinjore Gardens · Leisure Valley · Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary
Mayapur
The Chaitanya Charitamrita tells how Chaitanya sowed a mango seed after a kirtan (congregational chanting) and it grew at once into a tree that fruited every day for twelve months; the spot in Mayapur is still called Amra-ghatta.
Bethuadahari Wildlife Sanctuary
Pune
The state tree of Maharashtra. The Empress Botanical Garden, laid out in the 1830s, holds mango and other old plantings that predate most of the modern city.
Empress Botanical Garden · Saras Baug · Bedse Caves