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The 'Dot' mango is a
mango cultivar The following is a list of some prominent mango cultivars. Worldwide, hundreds of mango cultivars are known, with over 1000 varieties in India. Most commercial cultivars belong to ''Mangifera indica'', while a few commercial varieties grown in Sou ...
that originated in
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. The cultivar has limited to no commercial plantings but is sold as nursery stock for home use in Florida.


History

Dot was originally developed by nurseryman Laurence Zill of
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, and was named after his wife Dorothy. It was reportedly a seedling of the
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mango, however a 2005 pedigree analysis by the USDA estimated it was a seedling of the
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mango. Dot was propagated for several years by the Zill nursery but fell out of favor due to disease susceptibility and lack of ideal color. However, Frank Smathers of
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received several cuttings of the Dot and took up propagating the tree, finding the eating quality of the fruit to be very high. The fruit began to be promoted as a popular dooryard cultivar beginning in 1992 at the
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International Mango Festival, where it has become a featured cultivar several years. Today, Dot is still sold as a dooryard tree in Florida. Dot trees are also planted in the collections of the
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's germplasm repository in
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, the University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center in
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, and the Miami-Dade
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, also in Homestead.


Description

The fruit is oval to ovate in shape, with a pointed apex that has minimal to no beak. The fruit average slightly less than a pound at maturity, developing yellow skin often containing pinkish blush. The flesh is fiberless, juicy, aromatic and firm, with a flavor described as very rich and sweet. It contains a
monoembryonic Monoembryony is the emergence of one and only one seedling from a seed. A seed giving two or more seedlings is polyembryonic. Some of the nuclear cells surrounding the embryo sac In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to an ...
seed. The fruit matures from June to August in Florida,http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg216 Table 1 giving it an extended season. The fruit and flowers are susceptible to anthracnose fungus, which can limit production. The trees are moderately vigorous growers that develop open canopies. The leaves are noted for often having a yellow appearance despite the trees being healthy.


See also

*
List of mango cultivars The following is a list of some prominent mango cultivars. Worldwide, hundreds of mango cultivars are known, with over 1000 varieties in India. Most commercial cultivars belong to ''Mangifera indica'', while a few commercial varieties grown in Sou ...


References


External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20100617041846/http://www.fairchildgarden.org/livingcollections/tropicalfruitprogram/Fairchilds17thAnnualInternationalMangoFestival/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Dot (Mango) Mango cultivars Flora of Florida