Zill 80
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)
Zill-80 is thought to have been a Kent seedling, and was selected by the Zill family in Boynton Beach, FL, so named because it first fruited in the year 1980. It was grafted by the Zill nursery for some time in the 1980s but later discontinued. In the 1990s, Gary Zill used Zill-80 as one of the maternal parents for his breeding project, and it is a parent of several newer cultivars including Fruit Punch, 36-8 (India/Super Alphonso), Edgar, Carla, Marlys, Crystal, C-17 and others.
The fruit are large, roundly shaped, developing yellow color with bright red blush at maturity. The flesh is firm, fiberless, and dark yellow, containing a large monoembryonic seed.
The flavor is in the classic-acid group and very delicious, with mixed notes of citrus and peach and a very tangy component that many people enjoy. We regard it as one of the better late season varieties. The fruit can sometimes have issues with uneven ripening .
The trees are moderately vigorous growers with spreading open canopy.They have good anthracnose resistance and produce fairly well, although the fruit can often develop a large unsightly anthracnose spot at the top.
Unfortunately it is likely Zill-80 possesses at least some susceptibility to bacterial spot and rot fungi, the extent to which we are still attempting to verify. We planted a small tree in 2017 for evaluation. It fruited in 2019 and did display some susceptibility to MBBS but hasn't been too problematic in recent years.
Zill-80 is a late season mango ripening from late July through primarily August.
Flavor: Classic-acidic
Country: Florida - USA