Coconut Cream
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE Make your Grafting Request Order
We are only able to graft twice a year, Late Spring & Late Summer.
- If we receive the order between after September 24th and before May 1st, The trees will be grafted in Spring & should be ready by the end of the year.
- For orders made after May 01st and before of September 24th will be grafted in late Summer and should be ready in the Spring following year, May most likely.
Only Once the small tree has completed two flushes of growth since it was grafted do we consider it ready to leave our nursery.
(Estimated time is 6 to 8 months. Some varieties take longer time to growth)
Coconut Cream was selected by Gary Zill from his breeding program in Boynton Beach, FL. It is one of only a few patented mangos in existence, and was a cross between the 'Edward' and 'Gary'.
It has become famous for its pronounced coconut flavor coupled with a rich sweetness. This trait has made Coconut Cream a very highly demanded mango; unfortunately the production from the trees thus far has been somewhat disappointing. They have developed a reputation for taking a long time to start producing well, possibly 5 to 7 years in many cases. This can be due to producing too many male flowers and also from dropping excessive amounts of developing fruit when the trees are still young. Evetually Coconut Cream can become reasonably productive however.
The fruit are medium sized, oval shaped with a bumpy surface and yellow, developing some pinkish blush.
The flesh is soft, light yellow, fiberless and goes overripe rather quickly. The seed is small and polyembryonic.
The trees have rather unwieldy, spreading growth habits and are fairly vigorous growers. They are early/mid-season mangos, ripening primarily from June through July. Coconut Cream has a partial graft incompatibility with Turpentine rootstock which often results in weak graft unions, and they are one of the most likely trees to snap in a wind storm.
Due to the active patent, we do not produce Coconut Cream trees or sell scions from them, but we do sell the fruit.
Flavor: Coconut
Country: Florida-USA