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# Maya

A round red Israeli mango with classic sweetness and familiar tropical flavor.

![A Maya mango photographed on its tree by Roei.tabak. Maturity is not specified.](https://mangoranking.com/fruit/photos/maya-photo-v1.jpg)

A Maya mango photographed on its tree by Roei.tabak. Maturity is not specified.

Mango Maya.jpg — Roei.tabak. [Photograph source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mango_Maya.jpg) · [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

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## How it tastes

juicy · Low fibre

**Texture**

juicy

**Fibre**

Low fibre

**Eating styles**

Get sticky

**Harvest**

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

## How to enjoy it

Maya brings a classic mango flavour from Israel. The round cheeks suit fresh slices, but the red-yellow skin still needs the usual check for softness and scent.

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

## When it is ripe

Look for a full red-yellow color, fragrance, and moderate give.

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.

**Maya**

Named by Hanan Oppenheimer for his wife Maya.

- [Wilson Popenoe — Avocados in Spain and Elsewhere, 1959 eyewitness account](https://www.avocadosource.com/CAS_Yearbooks/CAS_43_1959/CAS_1959_PG_55-66.pdf)

- [Miriam Shoham — Maya cultivar history](https://www.mshoham.com/mangosvarieties)

- [Volcani Center — new Israeli mango cultivars](https://www.agri.gov.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Set-of-elite-New-Israeli-Mango-Cultivars-AgroIsrael-10-16.pdf)

**Queen Maya**

A market description used by Israeli exporter Miriam Shoham.

- [Wilson Popenoe — Avocados in Spain and Elsewhere, 1959 eyewitness account](https://www.avocadosource.com/CAS_Yearbooks/CAS_43_1959/CAS_1959_PG_55-66.pdf)

- [Miriam Shoham — Maya cultivar history](https://www.mshoham.com/mangosvarieties)

- [Volcani Center — new Israeli mango cultivars](https://www.agri.gov.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Set-of-elite-New-Israeli-Mango-Cultivars-AgroIsrael-10-16.pdf)

**Maya mango**

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

## A wife’s name in the research orchard

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

On a visit to Rehovot, horticulturist Wilson Popenoe saw a local mango seedling that impressed him. His 1959 account records that Hanan Oppenheimer had named it Maya in honour of his wife. A personal dedication had become part of the research orchard.

Popenoe considered Haden a likely pollen parent, a useful reminder that even an eyewitness account can leave the pedigree uncertain. Later Israeli agricultural records describe Maya as an established local cultivar. Its first story is wonderfully direct: a horticulturist found a mango worth keeping and gave it the name of someone he loved.

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

- [Wilson Popenoe — Avocados in Spain and Elsewhere, 1959 eyewitness account](https://www.avocadosource.com/CAS_Yearbooks/CAS_43_1959/CAS_1959_PG_55-66.pdf)

- [Miriam Shoham — Maya cultivar history](https://www.mshoham.com/mangosvarieties)

- [Volcani Center — new Israeli mango cultivars](https://www.agri.gov.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Set-of-elite-New-Israeli-Mango-Cultivars-AgroIsrael-10-16.pdf)

## Places in this record

Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.

- **Israel**

  Catalogue association

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

- **Italy**

  Recorded cultivation

  Recorded alongside Keitt in an orchard sampled in 2025.

  - [Giordano et al.: cultivar records from four Sicilian mango orchards (2025)](https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4828)

- **Ficarazzi, Sicily, Italy**

  Recorded cultivation

  Recorded alongside Keitt in an orchard sampled in 2025.

  - [Giordano et al.: cultivar records from four Sicilian mango orchards (2025)](https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4828)

- **Rehovot, Israel**

  A place in the story

  Setting of “A wife’s name in the research orchard”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.

  - [Wilson Popenoe — Avocados in Spain and Elsewhere, 1959 eyewitness account](https://www.avocadosource.com/CAS_Yearbooks/CAS_43_1959/CAS_1959_PG_55-66.pdf)

  - [Miriam Shoham — Maya cultivar history](https://www.mshoham.com/mangosvarieties)

  - [Volcani Center — new Israeli mango cultivars](https://www.agri.gov.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Set-of-elite-New-Israeli-Mango-Cultivars-AgroIsrael-10-16.pdf)

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

## Sources

- [Giordano et al.: cultivar records from four Sicilian mango orchards (2025)](https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4828)

- [Wilson Popenoe — Avocados in Spain and Elsewhere, 1959 eyewitness account](https://www.avocadosource.com/CAS_Yearbooks/CAS_43_1959/CAS_1959_PG_55-66.pdf)

- [Miriam Shoham — Maya cultivar history](https://www.mshoham.com/mangosvarieties)

- [Volcani Center — new Israeli mango cultivars](https://www.agri.gov.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Set-of-elite-New-Israeli-Mango-Cultivars-AgroIsrael-10-16.pdf)

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