Bouea macrophylla is commonly known in English as the “marian plum”, “gandaria”, and “plum mango”. It is also known in Thai as ma praang (มะปราง) and ma-yong; in Indonesian as ramania and gandaria; in Burmese as mayan-thee (မရမ်းသီး); and in Vietnamese as thanh trà

In Malay, the tree is known as kundang, rembunia, and setar, and is the origin of the toponym Alor Setar (with alor meaning “small stream”).

In 2015 a major retailer introduced the fruit to the British public under the name plango, apparently a portmanteau word for “plum” and “mango”.^[3] At the time the announcements noted the resemblance of the fruit to plums and mangoes, and some of the local press deliberately or naively announced that the fruit was a cross between a plum and a mango,^[4] which is not botanically plausible without genetic engineering, given that plums and mangoes are not even in the same family; they are in fact members of the Rosaceae and Anacardiaceae respectively.

The fruit (resembling a mango) are green in colour and mature to an orange/yellow, with the seed being pink. They grow to roughly 2 to 5 cm (0.7 to 1.9 inches) in diameter. The entire fruit, including its skin is edible. The fruit range from sweet to sour in flavour, and have a light smell of turpentine.

Fruit can be eaten raw, or made into dishes such as pickle, compote, or sambal. Unripened fruit can be used to make rojak and asinan.^[1]