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# Pairi

Pairi already had several spellings—and more than one selection—when it entered early international mango records.

## 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.

**Pairi**

India

The name used in India’s horticultural records.

- [NHB: Mango cultivation and varieties](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

- [NHB: Approaches for Sustainable Development of Horticulture](https://nhb.gov.in/pdf/StudyReport3.pdf)

- [Wilson Popenoe (1920): Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, mango varieties](https://www.growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/MangoPopenoe11.htm)

**Paheri / Pirie / Pyrie**

Historical spellings recorded by Popenoe; his proposed Pereira etymology remains tentative.

- [Wilson Popenoe (1920): Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, mango varieties](https://www.growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/MangoPopenoe11.htm)

- [National Horticulture Board: Mango varieties and growing regions](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

## 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 story](https://mangoranking.com/stories/regional-india-pairi.md)

- [Wilson Popenoe (1920): Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, mango varieties](https://www.growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/MangoPopenoe11.htm)

- [National Horticulture Board: Mango varieties and growing regions](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

## Places 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.

  - [NHB: Mango cultivation and varieties](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

  - [NHB: Approaches for Sustainable Development of Horticulture](https://nhb.gov.in/pdf/StudyReport3.pdf)

- **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.

  - [Wilson Popenoe (1920): Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, mango varieties](https://www.growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/MangoPopenoe11.htm)

  - [National Horticulture Board: Mango varieties and growing regions](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

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

## Sources

- [NHB: Mango cultivation and varieties](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

- [NHB: Approaches for Sustainable Development of Horticulture](https://nhb.gov.in/pdf/StudyReport3.pdf)

- [Wilson Popenoe (1920): Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, mango varieties](https://www.growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/MangoPopenoe11.htm)

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