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Mango ID needed
« on: August 01, 2018, 02:42:09 PM »
My place has 50 mango trees of about 25 varieties and this is one of the last I am trying to identify. The planting was part of the Treehouse nursery on Pine Island (SWFL) owned by Bob and Vivian Murray. This one did not bear last year and even after heavy pruning it has made a small crop this year.

Tree is about average size not dwarfish and not excessively vigorous.
The fruit skin is yellow with a slight pink blush, it bears in clusters of up to five fruit, and just began ripening last week. Flesh is fully yellow but not as dark as Carrie, taste is sweet somewhat spicy and aromatic but I have only eaten two so far.

For point of reference the last of Carrie has just finished here, Kent and Lemon Zest are ripening, and Mallika has been ripening for about 2 weeks.

Any thought on this variety?







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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2018, 03:03:35 PM »
Bailey's Marvel?
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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2018, 03:27:56 PM »
No, the fruit is smaller and more elongated than Bailey's Marvel. I do know of that variety which originated here and do have two of those trees. Neither of them are bearing this year they got hat-rack trimmed by Hurricane Irma last September.

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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2018, 03:29:30 PM »
Does not look like BM.  Why do those pictures look like two different fruit altogether?
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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2018, 05:59:17 PM »
They are two fruit from the same tree, and the second pic shows the shape better, while the first pic I was holding the mango at a bit of an angle, sorry.

Steve Cucura of Fruitscapes nursery here tasted it and believes it may be Kesar.

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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2018, 06:12:42 PM »
I was going to say to talk to Steve.  While its tough frim a picture, it doesnt look like Kesar that I have seen grown here on the East Coast.
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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2018, 07:52:41 PM »
Definitely not Kesar. Jacquline? Based on the 2nd pic.
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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2018, 09:21:45 PM »
I don't discount Jacqueline as a possibility.

Another, more likely possibility is Page / Paige--- I'm not sure of the spelling.  I don't know if this variety was named after Elsie Page, who was a close friend of the Murrays.  There is one fruiting tree at Truly Tropical:  very nice quality fruit, poor production.
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Re: Mango ID needed
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2018, 05:43:53 PM »
Judging by sight, smell, and taste test an experienced local grower identified this as probably Coc/Cac mango. When cleaning up the grove I did run across a loose tag on the ground which was for Coc/Cac and no other unidentified tree has come close to matching so for now this one has been identified.