Mangifera Casturi/6-26
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)
Not technically a mango (Mangifera indica), Mangifera casturi (or Kastoree) is a mango relative originally from Borneo, Indonesia that is a very small, round-oval fruit which turns purple is color.
We have two types of Casturi trees in the ground in West Palm Beach and did manage to fruit one in Loxahatchee Groves at one point as well.
The fruit are very small,round, with orange fibrous flesh, light in flavor which some compare to lychee. They have a purple, almost bluish appearance hanging from the tree
The flowers and fruit are completely resistant to anthracnose, but the flowers can get powdery mildew and the fruit and foliage are prone to mango bacterial black spot.
Of the two Casturi varieties we grow, Casturi 6-26 has fruited more times.
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Country: Malaysia