Unique tasting mango preferred by many West Indians, and exported to the London market. Origin: Caribbean. Tree: compact (quite dwarfy in Florida), with a dense canopy. Fruit: greenish-yellow with a light pink to maroon blush and numerous small white dots, rounded with flattened apex, pronouncedly compressed laterally, 70–95 mm long by 40–75 mm broad by 20–55 mm thick, weighing 200–325 g with a thin, tender skin and soft, melting juicy flesh with scanty fiber, spicy flavor with a strong, pleasant aroma, of good quality. Seed monoembryonic in a thin, papery stone. Midseason, regular producer of small crops. The fruit is often severely infected with anthracnose disease (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz.).
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