Mangoes

Dashehari

Fragrant, sweet, and nearly fiberless with a long, elegant finish.

Elongated yellow Dasehri mangoes arranged in a pink basket

Ripe Dasehri mangoes from Shahdadpur, Sindh, as identified by the photographer.

Ripe Dasehri mangoes from Shahdadpur, Sindh.jpg — Qskb. Photograph source · CC BY-SA 4.0.

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How it tastes

Sweet · Fragrant · Smooth

Texture
buttery
Fibre
Low fibre
Eating styles
Bring a spoon
Harvest
See regional calendars

How to enjoy it

Dashehari is closely associated with the mango-growing belt around Malihabad. Under its long, slender shape is sweet, fine-textured flesh. Give the perfume time to develop before cutting it open.

Slice lengthwise beside the stone and eat the ripe flesh straight from the cheeks.

When it is ripe

Green-yellow skin can be ready; wait for perfume and a soft shoulder.

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.

Dashehari
Dusehri

Pakistan

Dusheri

Pakistan

Dussehri

Pakistan

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

Aman Dusehri

Pakistan

Aman Dusahri

Pakistan

Dashehari / Dasheri

Spellings of the cultivar named for Dashehari village.

Malihabad Dusseheri

The regional name recorded in the geographical-indication account.

دوسہری

Urdu · Pakistan

Urdu spelling recorded in PHDEC’s list of mango varieties.

Malihabadi

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

A village’s name on millions of lips

Local tradition: an attributed account, with uncertainty preserved.

The name comes from Dashehari village. A field account compiled by biodiversity researcher Bhuwon Sthapit with CISH scientists and local farmers describes its celebrated mother tree and the community around it. CISH collected scion material there in 1977 to propagate selected trees through nurseries.

The account also preserves a local legend: a travelling mango trader quarrelled with a monk who offered shelter, pushed a prized fruit into the earth, and left. The monk cared for the seedling that followed; its fine fruit eventually attracted the landowning nawab’s attention. This is the remembered tale, not a verified planting record.

The tree, the grafts and the story are different ways of keeping an inheritance alive. Dashehari names a mango, but it also keeps the village from disappearing behind the fruit’s fame.

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Places in this record

Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.

Harvest calendars by growing place. These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.

Sources

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