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# A name from an old story, a tree for a new orchard

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

Amrapali — Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi

Documented history

Amrapali was developed at IARI from Dashehari × Neelum. Its small tree and regular cropping gave growers a way to fit more trees into an orchard. Here the origin is recorded work by breeders, rather than a chance fruit found beside a road.

Cultural accounts connect its name to Amrapali of ancient Vaishali, remembered in Buddhist tradition. That is the name’s cultural association; it is separate from the cultivar’s modern parentage. The mango called Amrapali is not an ancient tree carried unchanged into the present.

## The names it answers to

**Amrapali / Amrapalli**

Spellings used in Indian cultivar records.

**Dashehari × Neelum**

Documented parentage; the reciprocal cross produced Mallika.

## Where the story comes from

- [ICAR–IARI: Technologies for farmers, mango varieties](https://www.iari.res.in/files/Publication/Others/Tech_Options_English-15072014.pdf)

- [Deccan Herald: Yum for Mango, the name Amrapali (2019)](https://www.deccanherald.com/features/yum-for-mango-736070.html)

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