Pairi
Pairi already had several spellings—and more than one selection—when it entered early international mango records.
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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.
- Pairi
India
The name used in India’s horticultural records.
- Paheri / Pirie / Pyrie
Historical spellings recorded by Popenoe; his proposed Pereira etymology remains tentative.
A name that travelled with the grafts
Local tradition: an attributed account, with uncertainty preserved.
Writing in 1920, horticulturist Wilson Popenoe recorded Pairi arriving in the United States from Bombay in 1902, followed by a slightly different selection from Poona in 1911. The name travelled, but it did not always describe identical fruit.
Popenoe suggested that Pairi might derive from the Portuguese surname Pereira. He treated that as a possibility, and so do we. His recorded spellings—Paheri, Pirie and Pyrie—show how an orchard name changes as it moves between voices and places.
Read the full storyPlaces in this record
Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.
- India
Catalogue association
NHB lists Pairi among cultivars grown in Karnataka, Kerala, and Maharashtra; the NHB regional study includes it in western India.
- Western India; historical introductions from Mumbai and Pune
A place in the story
Setting of “A name that travelled with the grafts”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.
Harvest calendars by growing place. These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.