Mango stories by place.

Local names, kitchens and orchards, with sources for every story.

• A Mediterranean chapter.

  Spain’s harvest and Sicily’s orchards reveal more than one mango growing in Europe. Follow familiar varieties into another part of their story.

  Mainland Spain and Sicily, Italy

• The mango you grew up with.

  Start with Pathiri in Mayiladuthurai. Follow the names, gardens and older varieties that make Tamil Nadu’s mango world its own.

  Mayiladuthurai and Tamil Nadu

• Names across a border.

  Chausa, Chaunsa, Langra, Dusehri. Explore the mango names shared by India and Pakistan, and the distinctions inside them.

  Northern India and Pakistan’s mango regions

• A whole world in a pickle jar.

  Tender Appemidi, sliced Totapuri and the western Indian names preserved by pickle makers. Follow mangoes through the kitchen.

  Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat

• Two parents. Two new mangoes.

  Meet Neelum and Dashehari, then follow their reciprocal crosses into Mallika and Amrapali.

  Indian research orchards

• From Florida, into the world.

  A family of cultivars leads from Florida into research collections and Brazilian orchards. Follow Haden, Irwin and Palmer.

  Florida, Japan and Brazil

• What do you call this mango?

  Hapus, Baneshan, Kili Mooku. Three familiar fruits show how much knowledge lives inside a local name.

  The Konkan coast and South India

• A mango’s place in everyday life.

  A Thai variety name, a Perlis rice dish, a Vietnamese growing region and a Philippine scientist. Four ways a mango becomes part of a place.

  Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines

• The orchard behind the mango.

  Kenyan Apple, West African Amélie and South African Sabre reveal three different ways a mango’s legacy grows.

  Kenya, West Africa and South Africa

• A person. An island. A rosy name.

  Follow Ataulfo into Chiapas, Itamaracá to Pernambuco and Manga Rosa into Brazilian selection orchards.

  Soconusco, Itamaracá and Teresina

• Island names, wider journeys.

  Julie, East Indian and Francique connect Caribbean gardens, growing traditions and fruit boxes bound for other shores.

  Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Haiti