Eldon (mango)

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Mangifera 'Eldon'
Eldon mangoes at the Redland Summer Fruit Festival, Fruit and Spice Park, Homestead, Florida
GenusMangifera
SpeciesMangifera indica
Hybrid parentage'Cowasji Patel' × unknown
Cultivar'Eldon'
BreederWalter B. Eldon
OriginFlorida, USA

The 'Eldon' mango is a mango cultivar which originated in south Florida, USA. Eldon eventually became a commercially adopted variety.

History

The original tree was grown from a seed on the property of Walter B. Eldon in Miami, Florida in 1939. Reportedly the seed had been a Haden seed, and a 1995 analysis supported this; however a 2005 pedigree study did not support this, estimating that Eldon was likely a seedling of Cowasji Patel instead. The original tree first fruited in 1942. Propagation was begun around 1948 by Lawrence Zill and J.W. Chafer.

While Eldon did not become a popular nursery stock tree in Florida over the following decades, it did eventually gain commercial acceptance in Africa.

Eldon trees are planted in the collections of the USDA's germplasm repository in Miami, and the University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida.

Eldon may have been a parent of the Southern Blush mango.

Description

The fruit is of oval shape and averages about a pound in weight; moreover, the fruit may have variegated color upon maturity, and can be a mix of green, yellow, orange and red blush. The flesh is yellow and has a sweet flavor with a pleasant aroma. The fruit contains a monoembryonic seed.

The trees are moderately vigorous with a large canopy that contains light green leaves.

References

  1. ^ Ledin, R. Bruce (1954). "Mango Varieties" (PDF). Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society. 67: 284–290. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26.
  2. ^ Olano, Cecile T.; Schnell, Raymond J.; Quintanilla, Wilber E.; Campbell, Richard J. (2005). "Pedigree analysis of Florida mango cultivars" (PDF). Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society. 118: 192–197. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-18.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1083571 Archived 2009-05-08 at the Wayback Machine USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, MD
  5. ^ http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/crane/pdfs/TREC-Fruit-Collections.pdf Archived 2018-04-08 at the Wayback Machine p., #27
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