But a regional specialty, which is named as beautiful but no so beautiful - An interesting story behind this mango.
If you are a Mango lover, then you must be knowing about Miyazaki mangoes, world's most expensive mango that sells at ₹300000 per kg - so each mango costing almost 1000$. I could never understand why it should cost so much - after all Mango is our national fruit (Did you now that ?). But then probably we don't understand the story of riches - they can spend anything on aesthetically fascinating look with scrumptious wealthy flavor - they need means to throw their money. Seeing its growing popularity, many farmers in India have started growing it commercially and that is what I thought, when I saw this mango in a nearby house.
This house is just at the edge of the newly developed road and everyday I would stare at these mangoes and think, this must be Miyazaki as it closely resembles the look.
They looked so beautiful that I took my camera to just capture them on frames. One fine day I decided to go and ask the owner if it's really Miyazaki and if yes, then from where he collected the sapling.
He did not even know about Miyazaki - this is Gendi Sundari - ଗେଣ୍ଡି ସୁନ୍ଦରୀ ( which means beautiful but not so beautiful) - wow, what a lovely name...it's a regional specialty. I asked him if he can give me a mango to taste and he gladly said yes, but how to get it !! He tried his best by throwing few sticks at the plant, but they never hit those mangoes. Just then few college going boys were going on the road and seeing us trying to pluck, they also came and asked for some mangoes. One of them offered to climb the tree and like a monkey he quickly reached the top - the guy belongs to a farmers family in Andhra pradesh, one of our native state.
He gave me couple of matured ones and I happily brought them and put on sand to ripen more.
And now look at the color after it ripened.
Truly beautiful, isn't it ? It has no less aesthetically fascinating look than Miyazaki - just that its not over hyped.
The inside was fascinating as well, with a very sweet aromatic flavor and taste, we decided to eat one and take one for Mom. I thought to preserve the seed and grow a sapling out of it but then later gave up the idea, because the one that we have currently is much more tasty. May be one day we will grow that in a big farm house and export it - it just needs some niche marketing skills to make it famous..
This post is in response to the Hive Garden Question of WEEK 14 - a regional specialty.
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