Fruits edible, young leaves edible, essential oil yielding, timber yielding. The leaves are astringent and odontalgic. An infusion is drunk to reduce blood pressure and as a treatment for conditions such as angina, asthma. It has many pharmacological properties including antioxidant, radioprotective, antitumor, immunomodulatory, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, lipolytic, antibone resorption, monoamine oxidase inhibiting, antiviral, antifungal antibacterial and antiparasitic properties.

ഫലം, തളിര് ഇലകൾ എന്നിവ ഭക്ഷ്യയോഗ്യമാണ്. ഇലകളുടെ നീര് ആസ്തമ , രക്തസമ്മർദ്ദം എന്നിവയെ കുറയ്ക്കാൻ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Mango trees are evergreen trees with bark dark grey. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, linear-oblong, margin entire. Flowers polygamous, yellowish-green, in terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5, ovate, imbricate. Petals 4-5, oblong. Stamens 4-5. Ovary sessile, superior, ovule pendulous. Fruit a drupe, yellowish-red, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp fibrous.