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The missing Barbour Lathrop Mango
« on: June 30, 2013, 12:55:12 AM »
In 1903 David Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop traveled Beira, East Africa and sampled a delicious mango.  They got the wrong scion wood delivered, which bore a different fruit not like the delicious mango they had in Beira, which they named after Barbour Lathrop.  Has anyone found this "lost" mango?
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Re: The missing Barbour Lathrop Mango
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2013, 05:10:52 PM »
Which mango are you referring to as the "lost" mango? The original one intended to be brought in, or the one that ended up being named the Lathrop?
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Re: The missing Barbour Lathrop Mango
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2013, 06:21:06 PM »
Quote from: murahilin on June 30, 2013, 05:10:52 PM
Which mango are you referring to as the "lost" mango? The original one intended to be brought in, or the one that ended up being named the Lathrop?

They didn't have scion wood available at the time when they ate the mango.  Someone later sent scion wood, but it was from a different mango.  So they never got the correct scion wood.  The mango Fairchild and Lathrop consumed disappeared....
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