The Tropical Fruit Forum

TOP 10 FAVORITE MANGO CULTIVARS WITHIN USA AND AROUND THE WORLD:


Lot of us love to consider location, precocity, disease resistance, season, growth and bearing habit in a mango tree. We ought to respect that. But my inventory is based on the flavor profile only.

The list is so profuse, it is hard to grasp each profile in the neuron adequately, unless you test tasting lot of the cultivars every year. Even under an honorable mention, there're so many exceptional mango varieties, anyone can dream of.
I tried my best to get off "Zill's breeding project" to choose varieties for my list but I couldn't find many to beat these supreme heterogeneity of mangoes created by Gary Zill.

Hats off to both Zill brothers who carried the benefaction from their father and wooed his legacy toward  unprecedented contribution to develop so many new varieties. This family owns the fame to propagate the most top-tier mangoes around the nation as it reflects in my list as follows.


MY TOP 10 MANGOES NATIVE TO SOUTHERN PART OF CONTINENTAL USA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERS:
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CREME-BRULEE
JAKARTA
M4
ORANGE ESSENCE
ORANGE SHORBET
PEACH COBBLER
PINA COLADA
SUPER ALPHONSO
SUGARLOAF
SWEET TART


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BEVERLY
BUTTERCREAM
COTTON CANDY
COCONUT CREAM
FRUIT COCKTAIL
GISELLE
KAREN MICHELLE
LEMON ZEST
PINEAPPLE PLEASURE
SUPER JULIE
VENUS
ZILL 40-26

It seems like that the Zill's "breeding project" sweeps the local series of mango contest.
 
Luckily, I had the privilege to travel around the world leading mango producing countries. I tried so many of them over the years and I came across the following  supremely delectable mangoes worth mentioning.   


MY TOP 10 MANGOES NATIVE TO INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERS:
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ALPHONSO
AMRAPALLI
BANGANAPALLI
CAC
CHAUNSA
DASHERI/DUSSEHRI
HIMSAGAR
LANGRA
MULGOBA
SINDHRI

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ALAMPUR BANESHAN
ANWAR RATOL
CARABAO(couple of strains are the best)
FAZLI
GOURMATI
ICE CREAM
KESAR
MALDA
MANKURAD
TONG DAM
SAROLI



NOTE: List may vary depending on the new cultivars come forth every year. Let us know what are your most favorite local and international mangoes in their native condition!

I propagated the following  cultivars in South Florida conditions and almost each and every variety failed to retain their exotic flavor,complexity, spiciness and °brix, compared to their country of origin. I came up with an inference for each variety I tried in Florida in percentages, close to their native conditions. And of course, this is my own assessment for these cultivars growing in Florida. It is worth to make mention that I tried all of them in both parts of the world. Except, for my Alphonso scion which was collected from Pine Island Nursery(Homestead, Miami) in late 90's and others were obtained from their country of origin.

‌Alphonso-50%
‌Imam pasand-70%
‌Amrapalli-70%
‌Anwar Ratool-40%
‌Banganpalli-50-60%
‌Chaunsa-40%
‌Dussehri-50%
‌Fazli-expecting bloom in 2021
‌Gopalbhog-60%
‌Gourmoti-60%
‌Haribhanga-60%
‌Himsagar-expecting bloom in 2021
‌Jahangir-60%
‌Kesar-70%
‌Langra and it's phenotypes-expecting bloom in 2021
‌Malda-expecting bloom in 2021
‌Mallika-60%
‌Sindhri-not yet bloomed
‌Sonpari-80%

They definitely, could show way better results where the conditions match or close to their original environment in most southern part of continental USA or in latin America. Those who have propagated these cultivars they can chime in to share their first hand experience.