Golden Queen/Jin Huang/ Kiew Yai/Cat Saigon
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)
This mango is originally known as Jin Huang, and is from Taiwan. It is a cross between 'Ivory' and 'Keitt', producing enormous, very ornamental fruit. It has gone by multiple other names since being marketed commercially and introduced to other east Asian countries, including Golden Queen and Kiew Yai (in Thailand). Trees labelled "Cat Saigon" have also turned out to be Golden Queen.
They are oblong-sigmoid in shape, staying relatively green at maturity with some minimal pinkish blush at the top of sun exposed fruit in interior areas, while turning a more brilliant yellow/orange color towards the coast, weighing up to several pounds.
The flesh is firm, fiberless, and yellow. The flavor is good, of the Thai-class with typical sweetness and floral and honey notes, but with perhaps a little more depth to it than something like Nam Doc Mai or Keow Savoy.
The trees are moderately vigorous growers with vertical dense canopy. The foliage resembles that of Keitt but the flowers have superior anthracnose resistance.
Previously we had grown this variety in Loxahatchee Groves until about 2017. We planted a small one in West Palm Beach in 2017 with budwood obtained from the Loxahatchee tree and later planted a second under the obtained name 'Cat Saigon'. It is late season in Florida maturing from August to September. Despite excellent anthracnose resistance, the fruit is very prone to mango bacterial black spot and rot fungi
Flavor: Thai
Country: Taiwan