Lippens
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)
Lippens was a seedling of Haden selected in Miami, FL by Peter and Irene Lippens planted in 1931 and first fruiting in 1938. It received attention from the Florida Mango Forum in the 1940s and got publicized and later was commercially propagated. It is likely the parent of the Golden Lippens mango, as well as one of the parents of the Irwin mango.
The fruit are ovate to round, medium-sized with a background yellow color developing red-pink blush. The flesh is yellow, fiberless, with a very mild classic flavor. The seed is monoembryonic.
The trees are moderately vigorous with spreading dense canopy. Lippens is early season, ripening from June to July. After finding that it is very susceptible to bacterial black spot and rot, we top worked our Lippens in 2019.
Flavor: Classic
Country: Florida-USA