Panicle diversity of some mango varieties under semi-arid lateritic belt of Eastern India

The present experiment was conducted during February to April in the year 2022 and 2023 selecting fifteen mango varieties from Institute of Agriculture,Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal as well as farmers homestead garden to study their morphological characters of panicles and distribution of types of flowers under semi-arid lateritic belt of Eastern India.In the present experiment the flowering of fifteen mango varieties viz., Bangalora, Banganpalli, Alphanso, Ratna, Sindu, Bombay Green, Vastara, Dasheri, Amrapali, Mallika, Swarnarekha, Meghlanthan, SafdarPasand, Himsagar, and Langra have been studied by selecting ten panicles from each plant in both the years with respect to different morphological parameters of panicle and flower distribution.The maximum length of panicle was noted in mango variety Ratna (43.1 cm) and it has also exhibited maximum numbers of rachis (65.6).Highest flowering duration has been observed under SafdarPasand (19.9 days) and lowest in Bangalora (10.1 days).Mainly the main stem and the branches or rachis are pigmented in mango panicles as pink, light pink, pinkish green, greening pink, green etc. Maximum male flowers per pinnacle (2056.2) have been noted in the mango Ratna and minimum in SafdarPasand (104.0).Number of hermaphrodite flowers per pinnacle of fifteen different mango varieties has been ranged from 19.0 (in Langra) to 314.2 (in SafdarPasand).Mango variety Langra has produced maximum hermaphrodite flowers (58.9 %) while lowest production of perfect flower was noted in Ratna (1.7%).