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Re: What type of mango is this
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2016, 02:16:24 AM »
The item description was a little confusing.  But I interpreted the statement as variety Wise.  Wise is an old time variety from Miami.  I don't recall it ever being identified as a giant mango.  Perhaps squam256 or bsbullie can provide a better answer...I recall reading a TFF post within the last year on wise mango.
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Re: What type of mango is this
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2016, 07:33:58 AM »
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Giant-mango-live-grafted-tree-from-Puerto-Rico-/262448778173?hash=item3d1b2a8bbd:g:jKEAAOSwQYZWyccC

Hard to really say for sure.  I am unfamiliar with a mango called Wise.  I do remember some discussion about it here on the forum.  I thought that they might have been referring to Eweis, an Egyptian mango.  I was promptly corrected and advised that Wise was an older cultivar from the Miami area. Eweis definitely looks nothing like this mango.  TopTropicals has a picture of what they call Wise and it does not appear to be the same mango picture in the Ebay ad.  No comment on the correctness or lack of correctness of the photo.

I have seen Keitt mangoes that look like this and without further information, that would be my best guess.  I did encounter a large fruited mango called Piniero in Puerto Rico.  The fruit that I saw had not colored up as these have.  However, that blushing can often vary with sun exposure. I did buy a small Piniero tree but it has not fruited for me as of yet.
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Re: What type of mango is this
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2016, 08:40:45 AM »
The fruit in the photo is definitely not Wise. Something else. Maybe just some local seedling selection.

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Re: What type of mango is this
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2016, 10:00:18 AM »

 

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