Alphonso
Also known as Happus +10
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A celebrated Indian mango with aromatic, orange-yellow flesh, eaten fresh and used in processing.
Taste & texture
- Used for
- pulp or canned productsused fresh
Mango varieties ripen at different speeds on the counter.
instrumental study · Orchard lots from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu, India · 2010
Read the evidence
The seven-cultivar Indian study found texture changes over ten days to be cultivar- and harvest-stage dependent. Later-harvested fruit generally had lower firmness; the reported rate of textural decline was greatest in the Maldah lot and lowest in Banganapalli.
- Fruit tested
- Fresh fruit sampled at early, middle and late harvest dates and naturally ripened
- Varieties compared
- Alphonso, Banganapalli, Chausa, Dashehri, Kesar, Maldah, Neelam
- Use studied
- Fresh eating
- Published
- 2013
How to spot it
- Appearance
- Fruit colourFruit colour: orange yellow.
source heading: Alphonso (Happus)
nhb.gov.in ↗Context & source
NHB mango profile, page 1, Alphonso entry
Original record: An orange-yellow Indian mango used fresh and in pulp or canned products; the source also notes susceptibility to spongy tissue.
- /interpretation/context
- source heading: Alphonso (Happus)
Origin & family
Where Alphonso began
Recorded origin
India
Alphonso’s family
5 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Alphonso
India
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Field notes
Original source notes
Growing places
- region
- Maharashtra
- country code
- IN
- region
- Gujarat
- country code
- IN
- region
- Karnataka
- country code
- IN
- region
- Madhya Pradesh
- country code
- IN
nhb profile
- summary
- An orange-yellow Indian mango used fresh and in pulp or canned products; the source also notes susceptibility to spongy tissue.
- regional scope
- States listed in the horticultural variety guide; not breeding origins or measured production areas.
- source name
- Alphonso
- named states
- Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh