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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Mango
Mangifera indica
The stone fruit of South Asia — a ripe cheek of orange flesh, and a cashew-family sap that some skins refuse.
Flavor
Resin, peach, turpentine at the edge of some types — that is mango, not a fault. Alphonso is custard. A fibrous type is a string.
Symptoms
constipation, indigestion
In favor
A true tropical dessert
Against
Peel rash in the ivy-sensitive
Days to harvest
Years from a graft; a pit is longer
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