Given its scientific name by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753, described from a book about Malabar Islands' plants written in 1683 by a Dutch traveller Henrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Draakestein.
Original watercolour by M.B.L. Cockburn (1829-1928) held in the Manuscript Collection of the General Library at the Natural History Museum, London. (Mangifera indica L. - Mango)
