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Description: Bourbon appears in Brazil’s older cultivar literature.

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# Bourbon

Bourbon appears in Brazil’s older cultivar literature.

## About this name

This record preserves a local name and its context. A complete tasting guide and cultivar photograph have not yet been added.

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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.

**Bourbon**

Brazil

Name used in the cited Brazilian agricultural literature.

- [Principais variedades (Embrapa Infoteca)](https://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/handle/doc/134401)

- [Ramos, Variedades de mangueira (Embrapa / EPAMIG, 1982)](https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/bitstream/doc/563015/1/Variedades-de-mangueira.pdf)

**Espada**

Regional usage recorded for Bourbon in northern Brazil; not a universal synonym for the Espada group.

- [Ramos, Variedades de mangueira (Embrapa / EPAMIG, 1982)](https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/bitstream/doc/563015/1/Variedades-de-mangueira.pdf)

## A Brazilian name with an island connection

Local tradition: an attributed account, with uncertainty preserved.

An Embrapa guide connects Bourbon with seed introductions through the island of Bourbon. It also records Espada as a northern Brazilian usage for Bourbon—a warning that the same name can mean different fruit in different places. The naming history is not fully resolved.

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- [Ramos, Variedades de mangueira (Embrapa / EPAMIG, 1982)](https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/bitstream/doc/563015/1/Variedades-de-mangueira.pdf)

## Places in this record

Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.

- **Brazil**

  Catalogue association

  Named Brazilian cultivar sold in Brazilian wholesale markets.

  - [Principais variedades (Embrapa Infoteca)](https://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/handle/doc/134401)

- **Brazil**

  A place in the story

  Setting of “A Brazilian name with an island connection”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.

  - [Ramos, Variedades de mangueira (Embrapa / EPAMIG, 1982)](https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/bitstream/doc/563015/1/Variedades-de-mangueira.pdf)

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

## Sources

- [Principais variedades (Embrapa Infoteca)](https://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/handle/doc/134401)

- [Ramos, Variedades de mangueira (Embrapa / EPAMIG, 1982)](https://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/bitstream/doc/563015/1/Variedades-de-mangueira.pdf)

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