Glossary

Pleaching is training and interweaving branches to form a screen or other living structure. Adjacent branches may eventually join where tissues make suitable contact, but simple interweaving does not guarantee a functional graft. Mangoes are generally trained for light, access, airflow, and safe branch structure rather than as dense pleached barriers. Treat references to this technique as a landscape-training concept, not a recommended way to combine cultivars or a substitute for a properly made graft.

Plashing is an older term associated with interlacing or laying branches in hedge work and is sometimes used alongside pleaching. It does not describe a separate mango propagation method. Interwoven mango branches can rub, shade one another, or create difficult picking conditions, so the technique should not be confused with deliberate grafting. A grower wanting several cultivars on one tree needs compatible grafts and balanced branch management rather than merely weaving different trees together.