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The Dot mango originated in South Florida at the Zill nursery and has become a beloved backyard cultivar due to its exceptional eating quality. It produces fruit that is delightfully Fiberless , with a juicy, aromatic, firm texture and rich, syrupy-sweet flavor balanced by mild citrus undertones. While it lost favor commercially because of disease susceptibility and uneven coloring, it was resurrected in the early 1990s by Frank Smathers at Fairchild’s International Mango Festival and remains popular among dooryard growers. Gardeners prize its long harvest window—though they often need to harvest promptly once the bright yellow color-break appears to avoid overripening.
Tropical Fruit Forum, December 23, 2013:
I picked up two dot mangos from truly tropical on August 8th and gave one to my brother and kept one for this review. I ate mine about 5 days later which on that day my brother calls me exclaiming " I just ate the dot, it is stinkin delicious, even better than nam doc!" He loves nam doc mai like crazy. This mango was a yellow orange with some Anthracnose marks. The shape and skin color somewhat reminds me of canistel, and this mango also had a double-beak on the bottom left in the pic on the scale. It weighed 356g and was 3.5in long. When I cut the mango open it produced a bright orange flesh with some syrupy juice adhering to the flesh. The Monoembryonic seed was large relative to the amount of edible flesh as this was a smaller sized mango. The flesh texture was thick, savory, and creamy; it was Fiberless for the most part with an occasional long string of fiber on the base of the peel. The flavor was delicious, very sweet of rich mango flavor with syrupy honey sweetness. I actually ate this mango too fast and since it is a small mango ran out of flesh before I realized I needed to gather more of a taste description....oops. This dot mango was in my top 10 mangos this season and has been added to my grow list. A must try mango in my opinion.
It’s valued by mango collectors for its outstanding eating experience— Fiberless flesh, aromatic bright orange flesh, and tart-citrusy depth. However, its disease sensitivity and delayed color development serve as cautionary factors for growers in humid or wet climates.
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