Cushman (mango)

Cushman (mango)
Display of 'Cushman' mango at the Redland Summer Fruit Festival, Fruit and Spice Park, Homestead, Florida.

The 'Cushman' mango is a mango cultivar that originated in south Florida. The variety had limited commercial application but has been sold as a dooryard tree.

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History

The original tree grew from a seed planted in 1936 on the property of E. L. Cushman, in Miami, Florida. For many decades afterward the parentage of the 'Cushman' was unknown, however a 2005 pedigree analysis estimated that 'Cushman' was likely a cross between 'Haden' and 'Amini'[1]. The fruit was recognized as having excellent eating quality, but the trees were poor bearers making the cultivar undesirable for commercial production.

'Cushman' trees are planted in the collections of the USDA's germplasm repository in Miami, Florida[2], the University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida[3], and the Miami-Dade Fruit and Spice Park[4], also in Homestead.

Description

Display of 'Cushman' mango at the Tropical Agricultural Fiesta held in the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead, Florida.

The fruit is round in appearance and yellow when ripe, often looking more like a grapefruit than a mango[5].

References

  1. ^ Cecile T. Olano; Raymond J. Schnell; Wilber E. Quintanilla and Richard J. Campbell (2005). Pedigree analysis of Florida mango cultivars. Proc. Fla. State Hort. Soc. pp. 192–197. http://www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/academics/faculty/burns/pdf/192-197.pdf. 
  2. ^ http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1554803 USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
  3. ^ http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/crane/pdfs/TREC-Fruit-Collections.pdf Page 3, #20
  4. ^ http://fruitandspicepark.org/friends/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=29
  5. ^ http://www.virtualherbarium.org/tropicalfruit/mangotrees.html

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