Vellai Colomban
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.
Preorder: Graft Me a 1 Gallon Tree is an order for us to produce the specific tree that we don't currently have available in stock.
We must graft the tree and then it must go through a multi-month process to heal and grow.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 is a mango from Sri Lanka and probably the second most popular mango in that country after Karutha Colomban.
It is known for being able to fruit in wet areas mangos don't typically do well in.
The fruit are small, oval-oblong and turn greenish yellow to dull yellow at maturity. The flesh is orange, fiberless and contains a polyembryonic seed. It has an Indochinese-type flavor.
We obtained a tree in 2017 and it fruited in 2020. We have since determined that Vellai Colomban is the same mango as the Egyptian 'Hindi Bessenara', and we speculate that it was probably introduced to Egypt from Sri Lanka many years ago.
Flavor: Indochinese
Country: Sri Lanka