Langra
Aromatic green-skinned fruit with vivid sweetness, citrus, and a resinous edge.
Langra Benarsi selection at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden mango festival. Maturity is not specified.
Mango LangraBenarsi Asit ftg.jpg — Asit K. Ghosh Thaumaturgist. Photograph source · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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How it tastes
Citrus · Resinous · Sweet
- Texture
- juicy
- Fibre
- Low fibre
- Eating styles
- Get sticky
- Harvest
- See regional calendars
How to enjoy it
Langra makes a useful argument against shopping by colour alone. The skin can remain green while the flesh is ripe, sweet and intensely aromatic. Let the scent and the yielding shoulder tell you when to open it.
Open when fragrant, scoop the tender cheeks, and taste the sweet-tart finish without seasoning.
When it is ripe
The skin stays green; judge by fragrance and a gentle yielding feel.
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.
- Langra
Pakistan
A historical name associated in tradition with the orchard keeper’s limp.
- Banarasi Langra
Regional name locating the tradition in Banaras, now Varanasi.
- لنگڑا
Urdu · Pakistan
Urdu spelling recorded in PHDEC’s list of mango varieties.
The grower hidden inside the name
Local tradition: an attributed account, with uncertainty preserved.
The widely repeated naming story connects Langra to a mango tree in the orchard of a man with a walking disability in Varanasi. The Ministry of Food Processing Industries records the account with “it is said”: a useful distinction between the town’s tradition and a proven biography.
Langra is an old term referring to a limp. Repeating the story respectfully brings the person back into view, even though the sources do not preserve his name. Banarasi Langra makes the place explicit: this green-skinned favourite carries Banaras with 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.
- Pakistan
Catalogue association
Documented in Pakistani agriculture and trade references. Shares the existing Langra profile; its Pakistani association does not change the historical Banaras account.
- Varanasi (Banaras), Uttar Pradesh
A place in the story
Setting of “The grower hidden inside the name”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.
Harvest calendars by growing place. These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.