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The skin is leather-like, waxy, smooth, and fragrant, with colors ranging from green to yellow, yellow-orange, yellow-red, or blushed with various shades of red, purple, pink, or yellow when fully ripe.
The fruits may be somewhat round, oval, or kidney-shaped, ranging from 5–25 centimetres (2–10 in) in length and from 140 grams (5 oz) to 2 kilograms (5 lb) in weight per individual fruit.
The fruit has a single flat, oblong pit that can be fibrous or hairy on the surface and does not separate easily from the pulp.
The ripe fruit varies according to cultivar in size, shape, color, sweetness, and eating quality.
Over 500 varieties of mangoes are known,many of which ripen in summer, while some give a double crop.
The flowers are produced in terminal panicles 10–40 cm (4–15+1⁄2 in) long; each flower is small and white with five petals 5–10 millimetres (3⁄16–3⁄8 in) long, with a mild, sweet fragrance.
when the leaves are young they are orange-pink, rapidly changing to a dark, glossy red, then dark green as they mature.