Please tell me about #11 mango from Jamaica.

[Chris_TGM]

I have one on site at work, wondering what it is and if it is worth grafting. 

[Future]

I’ve never had the fruit but how it goes it’s name is quite the story, at least how Dr. Campbell told it years ago at Fairchild’s Mango Festival. Privateers, legalized pirates, attack a ship, sinking it with cannon fire. They climb aboard as she sinks to make their raid. As expected, they find people going down with the ship but unexpected, crated grafted mango trees straight from India. Split politically incorrect decision: what to save?  The tree in the 11th crate saved from sinking is today’s #11 mango. True identify....maybe genetic testing can tell.

[Chris_TGM]

Great story, thanks for that, and the reply. 

[birngerd]

It was one of the first mango varieties introduced into Florida. To me it tastes like Turpentine, but it's prettier. It makes a good rootstock.