It is definitely a mango! I agree I’ve never seen a mango like this, and my hobby as a kid in Miami was foraging fallen mangos from rights-of-way …
My mom says they are fiberless with an unusually thin seed, so it’s a huge amount of flesh per fruit. My sister-in-law is Thai and mostly uses the fruit from this tree unripe in her cooking, but they are supposedly also very good when ripe. I’m going to ask for scionwood to graft on my greenhouse tree, though I can’t imagine getting the tree large enough in my greenhouse to support more than a couple fruit this size!
boards screwed to old wood pallets work great for this if you want to put them like on the side of a house/ garage without having to put screws in them. ive done it with melon, cukes and winter squash.
dang man you grow a nice blackberry! my nelsons and dewberry are sizing up now . usually start ripening late july/ early aug. my dewberries look alot like your illni hardy but more purple than black. looks like im going to get a good harvest of them this year. the taste is even better than the nelsons which are very good. the -40’s last winter damaged my nelsons some but i should be getting a decent harvest still. didnt kill any canes, just stunted them so some barely produced any leaves/ fruit.
This might be slightly off-topic, but I have discovered an amazing twitter bot that posts old watercolors of fruit from 100+ years ago, from the USDA library’s collection. I am not going to admit how long I spent scrolling through these:
It seems to be dominated by apples and plums, but also includes all sorts of fruit, even avocados from time to time! I especially enjoy the ones showing rotting or diseased fruit, like this moldy orange:
@Naeem How has that shinko done for you? I have one fruiting this year myself, but others on the east coast gave it bad reviews. Chojuro though has been a rock star for me, with great taste. Moonglow I’m still having ripening issues. Ayers is dependable.
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