The edible part of mango is known as

🔑Key Points:
-The fruit is a characteristic feature of flowering plants.
-The fruit is a mature or ripened ovary, developed after fertilization.
-The pericarp is the fruit wall and may be thick and fleshy or thick and hard or thin or soft.
-The pericarp is made up of 3 layers-
-Epicarp = Outermost layer
-Mesocarp = Middle layer
-Endocarp = Innermost layer

• 🛑Important Points:Mango:
-The scientific name of Mango is Mangifera indica.
-It is a tropical fruit, common in South East Asian countries.
-In mango fruit is known as a drupe.
-They develop from monocarpellary superior ovaries and are one-seeded.
-In mango, the pericarp is well-differentiated into an outer thin epicarp, a middle fleshy edible mesocarp and an inner stony hard endocarp.
Types of fruit and edible parts ( Mango: Drupe, Mesocarp
( Custard Apple: Compound, Fleshy part
( Sweet Orange: Hesperidium, Mesocarp or pulp
( Banana: False Berry, Placenta and Pericarp
( Guava: Berry, Whole fruit
( Litchi: Nut, Aril
( Pomegranate: Balausta, Aril
( Fig: Synchronous, Fleshy receptacle or thalamus
( Grapes: Berry, Pericarp and Placenta
( Apple: False Fruit, Thalamus
( Mulberry: Sorosis, Entire fruit
( Strawberry: Etaerio of achenes, Entire fruit
( Peach: Drupe, Entire fruit
( Date Palm: Berry, Epicarp and Mesocarp