The Bailey's Marvel' mango is a named, mid-season mango cultivar that originated in southwest Florida.
History
The original tree was grown on Pine Island, Florida from a 'Haden' mango seed planted in the 1940s on the property of the Bailey brothers. A 2005 pedigree analysis estimated that Bailey's Marvel was likely a cross between Haden and Bombay. The variety did not become a major commercial cultivar but did become a popular dooryard variety.
Bailey's Marvel trees are planted in the collections of the USDA's germplasm repository in Miami, Florida,http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1554801 USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. the University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida,http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/crane/pdfs/TREC-Fruit-Collections.pdf Page 2, #6 and the Miami-Dade Fruit and Spice Park. The original tree is still standing on Pine Island.
Description The fruit is shaped very similar to its parent 'Haden' and has a similar flavor with fiberless flesh, averaging about a pound in weight and containing a monoembryonic seed. It ripens from July to mid-August in Florida, making it a mid-season cultivar there.
The trees are moderately vigorous growers and have a reputation for being slightly more cold tolerant than other varieties.
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