Kent
Variety of Mango · Mangifera indica
Large, juicy-sweet export mango with little fibre – popular for fresh eating and juice.
🇺🇸 USA 1944
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweettender
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling von Brooks (Nachkomme von Sandersha)
- Breeder
- Leith D. Kent (Florida)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 600 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, oval fruit with greenish-yellow, red-blushed skin and juicy, nearly fibreless, very sweet flesh.
Growth
Vigorous tree; late ripening with good shipping quality.
Yield
Important export cultivar from Mexico, Peru and Ecuador; late season.
Notes
As a green-skinned fruit it develops little red; judge ripeness by aroma and softness.
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