Mango Varieties and their Charecteristics
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Alphonso (Happus): Fruit medium in size, ovate oblique in shape, orange yellow in colour; juice is moderate-abundant; excellent keeping quality, good for pulping and canning; mainly exportedas fresh fruit to other countries; Flesh develops spongy tissue.

Bangalora (Totapuri): Fruits medium-large, oblong shaped with pointed base with golden yellow colour; good keeping quality; used for processing; heavy and regular bearing variety; susceptible to bacterial spot.

Banganapalli (Baneshan, Safeda): Variety suited for dry areas; fruit large sized, obliquely oval in shape, golden yellow in colour; good keeping quality; good for canning; biennial in habit

Bombai (Malda): Variety is alternate bearer; fruit medium, ovate and yellow in colour; keeping quality medium.

Bombay Green: Fruit size is medium, shape ovate oblong with spinach green colour; keeping quality is medium; early season variety; biennial in habit Highly susceptible to both vegetative and floral malformation.

Dashehari: Best varieties of the country; fruit size is small-medium, shape is elongated with yellow fruit colour, flesh is fibreless; good keeping quality; mainly used for table purpose; susceptible to mango malformation. Dashehari-51- regular bearing and yielding clone of Dashehari.

Fernandin: Fruit size medium-large, fruit shape oval to obliquely oval and fruit colour is yellow with a blush of red on shoulders; medium keeping quality; mostly used for table purpose.

Himsagar: Fruit is medium sized ovate fruit with yellow colour; good keeping quality; early season variety and mostly used for table purpose.

Kesar: Fruit medium oblong with a red blush on the shoulders; good keeping quality; ideal for pulping and juice concentrates; early season variety.

Kishen Bhog: Fruit medium oval oblique with yellow colour; keeping quality is good; bearing heavy.

Langra: Trees vigorous and spreading; fruit medium, ovate in shape with lettuce green colour; poor keeping quality; skin is very thin and pulp is very sweet; alternate bearing variety mostly used for table purpose.

Mankur: The variety develops black spots on the skin in rainy season. Fruit is medium ovate and yellow in colour. Fruit quality is very good but keeping quality is poor.

Mulga: Fruit is large roundish-oblique in shape and yellow in colour; high fruit quality and good keeping quality.

Neelum: Fruit is medium ovate-oblique in shape and saffron yellow in colour; good keeping quality; high yielding and regular bearing; ideal variety for transporting to distant places. This variety is mostly used for table purpose.

Samarbehisht Chausa: Fruit large, ovate to oval oblique in shape and light yellow in colour, flesh fibrous; medium keeping quality; extremely sweet in taste; alternate bearing variety; shows apical dominance. It is mostly grown for table and processing purpose.

Suvernarekha: Fruit medium ovate oblong fruit, green in colour with prominent red blush on the shoulders; good keeping quality; bearing is heavy.

VANRAJ: Fruit medium, ovate oblong in shape with a blush of jasper red on the shoulders; good keeping quality.