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Variety of Mango · Mangifera indica
Spain's standard mango – purple-hued, low in fibre and stores well.
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6🇺🇸 USA 1935
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildjuicysweet
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling der Florida-Linie
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 550 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, oval fruit with violet-purple skin and orange, low-fibre, mildly sweet flesh.
Growth
Regularly bearing tree; proven in subtropical cultivation.
Yield
Main cultivar of European production in southern Spain (Málaga, Granada); harvest September to November.
Notes
The main mango commercially established in Mediterranean Europe.
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