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Nam Doc Mai

by | Aug 4, 2025 | Mango Cultivars

Nam Doc Mai is one of Thailand’s signature dessert mangoes, famous for its long, slender fruit, floral sweetness, and smooth flesh that works beautifully fresh or with sticky rice.

Mango Characteristics

Origin: Thailand
Flavor: Thai
Sweetness: Excellent
Brix: 20.7
Sourness: Mild
Fiber: None
Fruit Size: Medium
Eaten Green: Yes (Sweet)
Production: Good
Season: Mid
Growth: Vigorous
Disease Resistant: Average
Tree Size: Medium
Small-yard: Yes (with maintenance)
Container: Yes
Seed Type: Polyembryonic

Nam Doc Mai Mango Overview

Also known as: Nam Dok Mai, Nam Doc Mai, Nam Doc Mai Si Thong family

Nam Doc Mai belongs in the thai flavor lane on Mangopedia. For growers and collectors, the important question is not only how sweet the fruit can be, but whether the tree habit, production, season, and disease tolerance fit the planting space.

Flavor and Fruit Notes

This profile lists Nam Doc Mai as a Thai-flavored mango with Excellent sweetness, Mild sourness, and None fiber. Fruit size is listed as Medium. These are practical tasting categories for comparing mangoes across the Mangopedia directory, not a replacement for tasting fruit from a well-grown tree.

Tree and Growing Notes

Growth is listed as Vigorous, tree size as Medium, and production as Good. Small-yard suitability is Yes (with maintenance), while container suitability is Yes. In humid Florida-style conditions, disease resistance and canopy management should be watched closely, especially for varieties with only average documented resistance.

Collector Notes

Nam Doc Mai is most useful to compare against nearby varieties in the same origin or flavor group. The notes above intentionally keep unsupported details as N/A rather than turning collector rumor into fact. Better field observations, nursery descriptions, or primary breeding records can be added as they become available.

Related Mangopedia Pages

Sources reviewed: Pine Island Nursery Nam Doc Mai; Tropical Acres Farms Nam Doc Mai #4; Specialty Produce Nam Doc Mai mangoes. Existing Mangopedia Brix values were preserved unless a reliable source clearly disproved them.

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