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Mango Varieties & IdentificationWho is commemorated by the Alphonso mango name?
The Alphonso record connects its name with Afonso de Albuquerque, a Portuguese viceroy associated with early sixteenth-century India. It also places the cultivar within the history of grafting and cultivation in western India. That historical naming context is separate from the origin of a modern nursery tree. Record where your plant was propagated as well as the background attached to its cultivar name.