Every name holds a story.

Documented histories, local traditions and names on the map, with sources for each.

• Pathiri: The mango named for a priest

  Pathiri means a Christian priest in Tamil. This Mayiladuthurai mango carries the name of its church connection.

• Appemidi: The mango remembered by the pickle jar

  Appemidi’s inheritance belongs to the people who keep its many trees, aromas and pickling traditions alive.

• Alphonso: A Portuguese name, a Konkan home

  Alphonso carries a colonial name, while Hapus belongs to the language of the people who grow and love it.

• Chaunsa: A battle in the telling, an orchard in the record

  Chaunsa’s royal legend and its horticultural history take different paths through the subcontinent.

• Kesar: The colour that became a name

  Junagadh’s saffron-coloured mango carries the memory of growers, a horticulturist and a nawab.

• Himsagar: Bengal, spoken in more than one mango name

  Himsagar and Khirsapati show how a fruit’s identity can stretch across languages, districts and a border.

• Ambika: A new generation from familiar parents

  Ambika’s story begins with Indian breeders choosing which qualities the next mango should inherit.

• Jehangir: A grand name with a quieter paper trail

  Jehangir is recorded in South Indian horticulture, but its name alone cannot prove a royal origin.

• Mallika: Two old favourites, one new mango

  Mallika joins Neelum and Dashehari in a family tree that breeders deliberately brought together.

• Panchadara Kalasa: The name promises a pot of sugar

  Panchadara Kalasa belongs to Andhra’s tradition of mangoes you drink as much as eat.

• Dashehari: A village’s name on millions of lips

  Dashehari leads back to a village near Lucknow and the mother tree its community remembers.

• Langra: The grower hidden inside the name

  Banaras remembers an unnamed orchard keeper whenever someone asks for Langra.

• Banganapalli: A town travels inside a mango

  Banganapalli, Baneshan and Safeda are names through which different markets recognise a beloved southern fruit.

• Totapuri: The mango with a parrot’s beak

  One unmistakable pointed tip has gathered a whole vocabulary across South India.

• Amrapali: A name from an old story, a tree for a new orchard

  Amrapali combines a celebrated ancient name with a documented modern breeding history.

• Neelum: The late arrival with a large family

  Neelum’s quiet fame lives in both the fruit bowl and the family trees of newer mangoes.

• Pairi: A name that travelled with the grafts

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

• Mankurad: The “poor-coloured” mango Goa treasures

  Mankurad’s name is remembered as a Portuguese description transformed by local speech.

• Rajapuri: An old name on a travelling fruit

  Rajapuri appears in both western Indian cultivation and an early record of mangoes sent abroad.

• Vanraj: A name to remember in Vadodara

  Vanraj has a clear regional home in the horticultural record, even without a surviving first-tree tale.

• Jamadar: A Gujarat name worth keeping in view

  Jamadar belongs in the record alongside the better-known mangoes of western India.

• Bombay Green: A travelling name that needs local context

  Bombay Green is a reminder that a market name can change meaning from one region to another.

• Zardalu: Bhagalpur’s mango, with a royal memory

  Zardalu carries a local tradition of royal cultivation as well as a wider eastern Indian identity.

• Kishen Bhog: A Murshidabad name still in season

  Kishen Bhog keeps a specific corner of Bengal present in the mango list.

• Gulab Khas: A familiar name across eastern orchards

  Gulab Khas belongs to the shared mango vocabulary of Bihar, Jharkhand and Bengal.

• Fazli: The woman remembered in a very large mango

  A Bengali name story connects Fazli with Fazal Bibi and her village of Arapur.

• Suvarnarekha: One coastal mango, several beautiful names

  Suvarnarekha’s names map a familiar fruit of coastal Andhra.

• Mulgoa: A southern favourite kept in the collection

  Mulgoa’s heritage continues through the orchards and collections that keep its name alive.

• Rumani: A Tamil Nadu favourite becomes a parent

  Rumani’s recorded family tree is one way to follow its influence beyond its own orchards.

• Arka Aruna: A big fruit on a smaller tree

  Arka Aruna tells a Bengaluru breeding story through two familiar parents.

• Arka Puneet: Familiar parents, a different direction

  Arka Puneet reverses the parent order used for Arka Aruna and has its own identity.

• Arka Neel Kiran: A later chapter for Alphonso and Neelum

  Arka Neelkiran brings two established mangoes into a new Bengaluru selection.

• Ratna: The Konkan’s new branch of the family

  Ratna gave Neelum and Alphonso another future—and later became a parent itself.

• Sindhu: A second generation, a much smaller stone

  Sindhu carries Alphonso into a breeding family twice.

• Rasapuri: Mysuru’s mango, carried in a local name

  Rasapuri’s documented home is the Old Mysuru region and its familiar food culture.

• Himam Pasand: A gift of a graft beside the Cauvery

  A family garden in Srirangam preserves one local chapter of Imam Pasand’s journey.

• Allumpur Baneshan: A name worth keeping distinct

  Allumpur Baneshan is recorded separately from Banganapalli in Indian horticulture.

• Ataulfo: Five trees, one remembered name

  A Tapachula property owner and an agronomist helped give a local mango a much larger life.

• Nam Dok Mai: A name that smells of flowers

  Nam Dok Mai brings the language of flowers to a Thai summer dessert.

• Harumanis: Perlis made it its own

  A Selangor selection became one of northern Malaysia’s most eagerly awaited seasonal arrivals.

• Cát Chu: A little pout, a royal tale

  Cao Lãnh’s mango keeps more than one explanation for its name.

• Julie: A Caribbean family tree

  A small mango travelled between islands, then left descendants in Florida gardens.

• Kensington Pride: The mango that came through the harbour

  Bowen remembers a gift of seeds that grew into an Australian summer favourite.

• Carabao: The scientist who changed mango season

  An old Philippine mango met a new way of persuading trees to flower.

• Sein Ta Lone: A diamond in the orchard

  Myanmar’s name for this mango treats a piece of fruit like a treasured jewel.

• Kent: A Coconut Grove name on a world traveller

  Leith Kent’s garden gave a widely travelled mango its surname.

• Keo Romeat: The mango that changes with the kitchen

  Cambodia’s familiar mango has a place in both the green-fruit snack and the ripe-fruit harvest.

• Apple Mango: A chance seedling from the Kenyan coast

  The Apple in this guide has its own Kenyan history.

• Manga Rosa: Many trees under one rosy name

  Brazil’s Rosa is a local inheritance with diversity still inside it.

• East Indian: An Indian name, a Jamaican home

  A name can remember a journey while the fruit becomes part of a new home.

• Zebda: Butter, in one word

  Egypt’s mango vocabulary makes room for a name you can almost feel.

• Sabre: The mango underneath the orchard

  An early South African fruit also helped other mangoes take root.

• Keitt: A family name at the end of summer

  The Keitt selection gave growers a reason to keep mango season going.

• Osteen: From Merritt Island to Málaga

  Spain’s familiar purple mango began with a Florida family tree.

• Amélie: One tree, many West African orchards

  Amélie’s regional history follows the sharing of grafts across borders.

• Francis: Haiti’s name on the fruit box

  Francique carries a Haitian identity far beyond the tree where it grew.

• Valencia Pride: A Florida backyard becomes a family favourite

  A seedling planted in Miami in 1937 spread from garden to garden.

• Haden: Florence named the fruit he never saw

  A widow’s decision helped turn one garden seedling into a mango dynasty.

• Tommy Atkins: The grower who kept believing

  A repeatedly rejected mango became one of the world’s most travelled fruits.

• Ambrosia: Before it had a name, it was 1-9

  A numbered tree in Gary Zill’s breeding orchard became Ambrosia.

• Angie: A mango for Angie Whitman

  One collector’s name lives on in a compact Florida tree.

• Carrie: A mother’s name, a lucky surviving tree

  A seedling intended to support another mango became the fruit the family wanted to keep.

• Corne: One name, more than one local mango

  Haitian names keep local distinctions that a distant catalogue can miss.

• Giselle: A mango named for Gary’s wife

  Planting number 35-6 became a personal dedication.

• Golden Elephant: A giant with a name still being traced

  Vietnam’s elephant mangoes have a longer story than the newest English label.

• Gold Nugget: The seedling someone noticed on a housing property

  Edward Mitchell gave an overlooked tree a name and a place in the nursery trade.

• Hong Sa: A mango with a green-fruit life

  Hong Sa belongs to the Thai tradition of enjoying mango before it turns soft.

• Irwin: A Miami surname with a life in Japan

  A Florida seedling found new identities in orchards far across the Pacific.

• Itamaracá: An island you can hold in your hand

  This little Brazilian mango keeps Pernambuco’s island name.

• Maha Chanok: The orchard discovery that received a royal name

  At Tiew Thong orchard, a new mango became Mahachanok.

• Maya: A wife’s name in the research orchard

  Hanan Oppenheimer named his promising Israeli seedling for Maya.

• Okrung: The old companion to sticky rice

  Ok Rong’s story is kept as much in kitchens as in orchards.

• Philippine: A country name that needs a little care

  “Philippine” can be an origin, a collection label or another name for Carabao.

• Pickering: A mango named for a loyal customer

  Walter Zill turned a chance seedling into a thank-you that kept growing.

• Pink Elephant: A Mekong favourite gets an English stage name

  The export name is new enough that its introduction can be followed.

• ST Maui: Two initials, an ocean crossing

  A Hawaiian trial selection found another life in Florida collections.

• Sugarloaf: E-4 found a sweeter name

  A numbered Florida seedling was named after the pineapple it brought to mind.

• Sweet Tart: From C-1 to a name you can taste

  Gary Zill’s numbered seedling acquired a name for its lively balance.

• Tete Nene: The “Hawaiian” mango from Puerto Rico

  A travelling nursery name almost hides the place this little tree came from.

• Sindhri: A golden name from Sindh

  Sindhri carries Sindh’s orchard identity into the first mango boxes of summer.

• Anwar Ratol: A small fruit with a celebrated name

  Anwar Ratol belongs to Pakistan’s orchard culture and a wider subcontinental naming history.

• Fajri: Room for a larger mango

  Fajri adds a generous late-season fruit to Pakistan’s mango table.

• Saroli: Saroli earns a place on the map

  An official cultivar list makes room for a name beyond the most exported favourites.

• White Chaunsa: A later chapter of Chaunsa

  White Chaunsa has its own name and harvest entry.

• Black Chaunsa: A name for the late fruit bowl

  Black Chaunsa is preserved as a named selection, with its own research record.

• Azeem Chaunsa: Another name at the end of summer

  Azeem Chaunsa extends the documented Chaunsa family beyond one generic label.

• Palmer: A Florida mango finds Brazilian orchards

  Palmer’s Brazilian chapter is a story of adoption.

• Espada: An old name with several sizes

  Espada belongs to Brazil’s older mango landscape.

• Ubá: A mango and a place share a name

  Ubá carries the identity of Minas Gerais.

• Coquinho: The mango beneath another mango

  Coquinho has a working life as rootstock.

• Bourbon: A Brazilian name with an island connection

  Bourbon appears in Brazil’s older cultivar literature.

• Buxton Spice: A selection becomes a Guyanese staple

  Buxton Spice’s story runs through household trees.

• Long mango: The other pillar of Guyana’s harvest

  Long shares a migration history with Buxton Spice.

• Van Dyke: A traveller in Guyana’s mango gardens

  Van Dyke joins the local selections as an introduction.

• Sensation: A Florida introduction reaches Guyana

  Sensation is part of Guyana’s introduced diversity.

• INIAP-Gota de Miel: From coastal collections to a new cultivar

  A measured selection became Ecuador’s Gota de Miel.

• Edward: A named choice for Peruvian growers

  Edward appears in Peru’s practical nursery literature.

• Criollo: Local seedlings support the grafted orchard

  Peru’s Criollo mango also has a life beneath the graft.

• Sabot: A shape remembered in a name

  Sabot’s outline caught the observers’ attention.

• Djibelor: The peach mango of Casamance

  A local second name accompanies Djibelor.

• Cuisse Madame: An orchard record from Upper Guinea

  Cuisse Madame has a dated regional foothold.

• Number One: One mango, several regional names

  Number One is a name from Cameroon’s anglophone zone.

• Davis-Haden: A new name in Mali

  Davis-Haden acquired a striking local label.

• Miami Late: A Florida name meets a Malian one

  Miami Late also has an animal-inspired local name.

• Springfels: A mango compared with a papaya

  Large fruit helped Springfels earn another name.

• Beverly: When neighbouring trees confuse a name

  Beverly’s story includes a documented mix-up.

• Eldon: A cultivar in the regional trade

  Eldon travelled with Florida’s mango introductions.

• Ruby: Mademoiselle in the orchard

  Ruby carries a second name in northern Côte d’Ivoire.

• Samassi: A name worth retaining

  Samassi survives in a regional inventory.

• Guinée: A place-name leaves a question

  Guinée is recorded in Burkina Faso.

• Lemourou mangoro: A photographed local identity

  Lemourou mangoro is more than a catalogue gap.

• Lèco: A small record of local diversity

  Lèco belongs in the regional record.

• Salaci: A name beyond the dominant varieties

  Salaci appears in southwestern mango orchards.

• Madou diara: A name without a verified biography

  Madou diara is documented, its namesake is not.

• Kassago: An uncommon mango on record

  Kassago broadens the orchard inventory.

• Noukourouni: A mango known across languages

  Noukourouni names Mangot vert in Bambara or Dioula.

• Dadjani: A local name for Mangot sabre

  Dadjani belongs to Bambara or Dioula usage.

• Mango guina: A Mooré mango name

  Mango guina is recorded in Centre-Ouest.

• Maïduguri: The limit of a name record

  Maïduguri was recorded without another local name.

• Dodo: A local tree in Tanzania’s mango economy

  Dodo appears beside newer introduced varieties.

• Mawazo: A Tanzanian name awaiting its full story

  Mawazo is part of the documented local range.

• Sindano: A name with more than one local form

  Sindano needs a little more precision.

• Muyuni: An orchard name, carefully preserved

  Muyuni appears directly in a Tanzanian farm survey.

• Red Indian: A name reported by growers

  The Tanzanian record does not supply a pedigree.

• Horanahiru: Selected for the wet zone

  Horana Hiru has an institutional home.

• Karthacolomban: A place in the dry-zone orchard

  Karthacolomban is an official Sri Lankan recommendation.

• Velleicolomban: Selected from local mango diversity

  Velleicolomban’s source is Sri Lankan germplasm.

• Villard: An official name with unsettled spelling

  Villard is the spelling preserved here.

• TOM EJC: From a variety to a farming programme

  TOM EJC became part of organised orchard development.

• Malwana: A named recommendation for two zones

  Malwana belongs in Sri Lanka’s cultivar record.

• Dampara: A wet-zone mango on record

  Dampara has a documented growing context.

• Giraamba: A conspicuous beak, an unexplained name

  Giraamba has a distinctive documented shape.

• Gedong Gincu: The red-cheeked mango of West Java

  Gedong Gincu carries an Indramayu naming tradition.

• Golek: A familiar name becomes a cultivar group

  Golek is larger than one numbered selection.

• Bapang: Sorting out a cluster of Indonesian names

  Bapang is a group in a botanical classification.

• Kebo: A group named in Indonesia’s mango taxonomy

  Kebo keeps a distinct place in the classification.

• Lalijiwo: Different names, one taxonomic interpretation

  Lalijiwo shows why local names need careful comparison.

• Fazli: A mango landscape across a border

  Fazli belongs to the wider Bengal mango story.

• Ashwina: A late harvest becomes a breeding parent

  Ashwina connects an older variety with a modern hybrid.

• Gaurmati: One different tree among 250

  Gaurmati’s recent history has a named place and discoverer.

• Gopalbhog: An early name in the mango calendar

  Gopalbhog helps open Bangladesh’s season.

• Govindobhog: A separate entry in the early harvest

  Govindobhog should not disappear behind a similar name.

• BARI Aam-4: A planned cross with a local parent

  BARI Aam-4 has a documented breeding history.

• BARI Mango-7: Local material becomes a numbered release

  BARI Mango-7 represents selection within Bangladesh.

• BARI Mango-9: Selected to eat before ripening

  BARI Mango-9 has a different place at the table.

• Bizcochuelo: A mango inseparable from El Caney

  Bizcochuelo’s strongest history is its place.

• Filipino: A Philippine introduction at a Cuban sugar estate

  The Cuban account locates an early tree near Jovellanos.

• Corazón: An old Cuban name, an open origin question

  Corazón appears in historical and commercial records.

• Chino Amarillo: One Chino name is not enough

  Cuba’s register distinguishes the yellow-labelled form.

• Chino Rojo: A separate Chino entry

  Chino Rojo retains its own name in Cuba.

• La Paz: A cultivar with a processing chapter

  La Paz’s record reaches beyond the fruit stall.

• San Felipe: A name tested in the pulping room

  San Felipe appears in Cuba’s processing literature.

• Reina de México: A regal name is not a passport

  Reina de México is documented in Cuban cultivation.

• Emperador: An imperial name with a modest paper trail

  Emperador is recorded as a commercial mango in Cuba.

• Manga Amarilla: A named form within Cuba’s mangas

  Manga Amarilla preserves a local classification.

• Manga Blanca: Another branch of the manga vocabulary

  Manga Blanca has its own place in the record.

• Toledo: A name carried through Cuban inventories

  Toledo is documented across generations of records.

• Bocado Común: A local mango judged as food

  Bocado Común has more than a rootstock role.

• Bocado Jobo: Two Bocados, kept distinct

  Bocado Jobo was studied as its own local type.

• Hilacha: From grafting stock to the tasting table

  Hilacha’s record connects growers and eaters.

• Manga Criolla: The roots behind the orchard

  Manga Criolla appears in Venezuelan propagation research.

• Pico e' Loro: A local name in two written forms

  Pico e’ Loro belongs to Venezuela’s criollo range.