Gouveia
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)
Gouveia was from the property of Ruth Gouveia of Palolo Valley, Oahu, Hawaii and said to be a seedling of Pirie (see 'Bombay'), though Pirie at times is a name used interchangeably with 'White Piri' in Hawaii, thus Gouveia's precise parentage is uncertain. It began to receive some attention from horticulturalists in Hawaii in the 1950s and was named in 1964. Over a number of years, it was evaluated by the University of Hawaii and recommended for home planting in dry areas. The original tree still stands today.
The Gouveia fruit are described as ovoid-ovate in shape, medium sized and are known to develop attractive red blush color on the skin.
We grafted Gouveia in 2019 with budwood obtained from TREC on the strength of the written reports of its eating quality, as well as having observed some promising production on Gouveia trees growing in Homestead, and the fact that it is a Piri descendent, as varieties from this line have demonstrated some resistance to mango bacterial black spot.
The tree fruited in 2021, and we found the fruit to be of very high quality belonging to the classic flavor group. The fruit are high quality classically flavored, with yeelow flesh and a monoembryonic seed.
Gouveia appears to be very productive here, though at least moderately prone to bacterial black spot disease.
Flavor: Classic
Country: Hawaii - USA