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# Amélie

Bright acidity, juicy flesh, and a fragrant early-season snap.

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## How it tastes

juicy · Some fibre

**Texture**

juicy

**Fibre**

Some fibre

**Eating styles**

Get sticky

**Harvest**

[See regional calendars](https://mangoranking.com/seasons.md)

## How to enjoy it

Amélie brings a bright sweet-sour balance to the West African mango season. A little acidity is part of the appeal, especially in a cold glass of fresh pulp and water.

Open over a bowl to catch the juice. Scoop the ripe flesh; strain blended pulp if you prefer less fibre.

## When it is ripe

Choose fruit turning from green to yellow with a clear fruity scent.

Flavour notes are subjective. Ripeness, handling and growing conditions change the fruit.

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Names, history & sources

## Recorded names

A shared name does not by itself establish an identical cultivar. Place, language and source matter.

**Amélie**

Name used in the West African horticultural record.

- [CIRAD — historical synthesis of mangoes in West Africa](https://publications.cirad.fr/une_notice.php?dk=520529)

- [CIRAD / EDP Sciences — The mango in French-speaking West Africa](https://fruits.edpsciences.org/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/04/i6401.pdf)

**Amélie de Guinée / Governor**

Names encountered in trade; verify local identity rather than assume every use denotes the same clone.

- [CIRAD — historical synthesis of mangoes in West Africa](https://publications.cirad.fr/une_notice.php?dk=520529)

- [CIRAD / EDP Sciences — The mango in French-speaking West Africa](https://fruits.edpsciences.org/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/04/i6401.pdf)

**Governor**

Existing catalogue label. It may be an alternate name, translation or market nickname; it is not an assertion of genetic identity.

**Amélie de Guinée**

Existing catalogue label. It may be an alternate name, translation or market nickname; it is not an assertion of genetic identity.

## One tree, many West African orchards

Documented history: consult the claims and qualifications in the cited sources.

CIRAD’s historical study traces an important chapter to an Amélie tree introduced into Mali around 1890. Grafts from it helped establish trees across neighbouring countries. This is a regional story told through propagation: a branch from a good tree could begin another orchard.

Amélie later became important in the early mango exports of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. Burkina Faso is therefore one meaningful home for the fruit, rather than a proven botanical birthplace. The research documents its spread more securely than the origin of the personal-sounding name.

[Read the full story](https://mangoranking.com/stories/amelie.md)

- [CIRAD — historical synthesis of mangoes in West Africa](https://publications.cirad.fr/une_notice.php?dk=520529)

- [CIRAD / EDP Sciences — The mango in French-speaking West Africa](https://fruits.edpsciences.org/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/04/i6401.pdf)

## Places in this record

Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.

- **Burkina Faso**

  Catalogue association

  Associated place in the tasting catalogue; this does not establish botanical origin.

- **Mali and neighbouring West African countries**

  A place in the story

  Setting of “One tree, many West African orchards”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.

  - [CIRAD — historical synthesis of mangoes in West Africa](https://publications.cirad.fr/une_notice.php?dk=520529)

  - [CIRAD / EDP Sciences — The mango in French-speaking West Africa](https://fruits.edpsciences.org/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/04/i6401.pdf)

- **Mali**

  A recorded historical connection

  Place associated in the cited history; this is not a claim of botanical origin.

  - [CIRAD — historical synthesis of mangoes in West Africa](https://publications.cirad.fr/une_notice.php?dk=520529)

  - [CIRAD / EDP Sciences — The mango in French-speaking West Africa](https://fruits.edpsciences.org/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/04/i6401.pdf)

- **Côte d’Ivoire**

  A recorded historical connection

  Place associated in the cited history; this is not a claim of botanical origin.

  - [CIRAD — historical synthesis of mangoes in West Africa](https://publications.cirad.fr/une_notice.php?dk=520529)

  - [CIRAD / EDP Sciences — The mango in French-speaking West Africa](https://fruits.edpsciences.org/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/04/i6401.pdf)

[Harvest calendars by growing place](https://mangoranking.com/seasons.md). These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.

## Sources

- [CIRAD — historical synthesis of mangoes in West Africa](https://publications.cirad.fr/une_notice.php?dk=520529)

- [CIRAD / EDP Sciences — The mango in French-speaking West Africa](https://fruits.edpsciences.org/articles/fruits/pdf/2006/04/i6401.pdf)

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