Sugarloaf/Zill E-4
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 was an Edward seedling from the breeding program of Gary Zill in Boynton Beach, FL. Either 'Gary' or 'Pettigrew' may have been its pollen parent, though Pettigrew seems likely due to physiological traits.
The fruit are rather ugly, obliquely oval in shape with a greenish-yellow color at maturity. The flesh is light yellow, soft, fiberless, and can sometimes ripen unevenly. On the underripe side the flavor is pineapple-esque, while on the ripe-er side is an incredible coconut explosion with a strong dessert-like sweetness. We think it tastes like the inside of a Mounds candy bar. The seed is polyembryonic and often aborted inside the husk.
We have planted several trees and top worked other trees into E-4 for further evaluation. The growth habit is low-to-moderate and spreading, with open canopy. The trees often flower more than once during winter and when young, have a tendency to produce too many male flowers. They normally outgrow this habit to some degree with age.
In 2018, it was given the name 'Sugarloaf' by Gary Zill, a reference to Sugar Loaf pineapple.