Appemidi
Small, aromatic tender mango types from Karnataka, prized for whole-fruit pickling.
One type of Appemidi: small mangoes held in a bunch, photographed by Vikashegde.
APPEMIDI1.jpg — Vikashegde. Photograph source · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How it tastes
Sour · Aromatic · Resinous
- Texture
- firm
- Fibre
- Some fibre
- Eating styles
- Into the pickle jar
- Harvest
- See regional calendars
How to enjoy it
Appemidi is a group of aromatic tender mango types from Karnataka’s Western Ghats. These small fruits are valued for pickling while still immature. Their story begins before the sweet, ripe stage: aroma, sourness and a tender stone are what the pickle maker is looking for.
Choose tender fruit for a tested whole-mango pickle recipe. The preserving method, salt and keeping conditions are part of that recipe, not interchangeable finishing touches.
When it is ripe
For traditional pickle, choose tender immature green fruit; dessert ripeness is not the goal.
The guide focuses on tender green Appemidi used for pickle, rather than ripe dessert fruit.
Eating it green
Picked tender and immature for whole-fruit pickle. This is its intended eating stage.
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.
- Appemidi
A name covering diverse tender pickling mango types, rather than one uniform dessert cultivar.
- Appe midi
A spaced spelling used for this Karnataka pickling tradition.
- Tender pickle mango
Existing catalogue label. It may be an alternate name, translation or market nickname; it is not an assertion of genetic identity.
The mango remembered by the pickle jar
Documented history: consult the claims and qualifications in the cited sources.
An Appemidi story cannot be reduced to one famous mother tree. At its 2023 diversity fair, ICAR–IIHR described conserving more than 200 Appemidi varieties and honoured five custodian farmers for protecting them. The name opens onto a whole collection of mango diversity.
These are mangoes prized while tender, before a dessert mango would be ready. Their place in a pickle jar gives growers and cooks a reason to remember small differences between trees. The farmers honoured at that fair are part of the origin story still being written: knowledge survives because people keep using it.
Read the full storyPlaces in this record
Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.
- India
Catalogue association
Associated place in the tasting catalogue; this does not establish botanical origin.
- Karnataka, especially its traditional Appemidi growing communities
A place in the story
Setting of “The mango remembered by the pickle jar”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.
Harvest calendars by growing place. These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.