Rapoza
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)
Rapoza is from Hawaii, and was selected as a seedling of ?Irwin? by Richard Hamilton of the University of Hawaii in Poamoho in the 1985 and named after Herbert Rapoza.
It has been planted on some commercial scale in Hawaii due to its positive traits.
In Florida, it is sometimes mis-identified as ?Dwarf Hawaiian? (the ?real? Dwarf Hawaiian is also known as ?Tete Nene?, which we grow).
The fruit are known for their beautiful crimson red skin with yellow background color, are round in shape, medium-sized, with yellow, firm and fiberless flesh.The seed is monoembryonic. The flavor is in the classic group, light/medium-bodied with notes of stone fruit.
Rapoza is a mid-season variety in Florida generally ripening from July to August.
The trees are moderately vigorous growers (NOT dwarf) with spreading dense canopy, and are very good producers, with moderate-resistance to anthracnose and powdery mildew.
Unfortunately, Rapoza has proven to be highly susceptible to the new rots affecting mango in south Florida and we do not recommend its planting here.
In 2019, after several years of losing large quantities of the fruit to bacterial spot and rotting, we began top working our Rapoza tree.
Flavor: Classic
Country: Hawaii - USA