Amrapali
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE Make your Grafting Request Order
We are only able to graft twice a year, Late Spring & Late Summer.
- If we receive the order between after September 24th and before May 1st, The trees will be grafted in Spring & should be ready by the end of the year.
- For orders made after May 01st and before of September 24th will be grafted in late Summer and should be ready in the Spring following year, May most likely.
Only Once the small tree has completed two flushes of growth since it was grafted do we consider it ready to leave our nursery.
(Estimated time is 6 to 8 months. Some varieties take longer time to growth)
Amrapali (sometimes spelled Amrapalli) is from India's national breeding program, a newer cultivar developed in the 1970s by crossing 'Dasheri' and 'Neelam'. This makes Amrapali the sibling of the better known 'Mallika'.
Amrapali has developed a strong reputation as a disease resistant mango of excellent eating quality that also possesses strong attributes as a tree: it is considered dwarf, precocious and highly productive.
We topworked it onto a mature tree in 2018 to evaluate it in our location. Other Amrapali trees in Florida have grown extremely slowly and this has been the case with ours. In 2020, the topworked Amrapali fruited for the first time and has fruited each year since. We top-worked a second stump into Amrapali in 2024.
The fruit is small, sigmoid shaped and goes overripe easily, but when sliced firm it has a deliciously rich and complex flavor that is difficult to classify, containing elements of citrus, classic and Indian/West Indian flavor elements. The seed is small, monoembryonic, and it may make a rootstock capable of dwarfing some Indian mangos according to at least one study.
Amrapalli is a later mid-season mango here in West Palm Beach, usually ripening in July.
Flavor: Citrus and Indian/West Indian
Country: India