Julie

Julie is from the West Indies, though people debate whether it is from Trinidad or Jamaica. Regardless, it is beloved in both places, sometimes going under the name "Saint Julien". It was probably introduced to Florida in the 1910s, and a number of Florida mangos can trace their ancestry to it. 

 

The fruit are small, oval and a little boxy shaped. They are green with a small amount of pink blush at maturity.

 

The flesh is quite soft, with a minor amount of fiber, rich in spice with a dash of coconut flavor and plenty of sweetness, making its flavor group difficult to classify. In some specimens the coconut flavor may be very pronounced. It contains a monoembryonic seed.

 

They can be difficult to determine maturity properly, and their window period for eating once ripe is quite short. Production in Florida has typically been disappointing, with the best-producing Julies usually occurring along the eastern coast; in the interior Julie suffers from poor fruit set and is beset with fungal issues. The trees often produce too many male flowers, and may suffer from partial sel-incompatibility as well. Julie is, however, fairly resistant to powdery mildew and very resistant to mango bacterial black spot disease.

 

The trees are naturally very dwarf, with compact horizontal growth habit and dense canopy.

They will often flower multiple times during the course of winter, often leading to two separate crops with some ultra early fruit coming from April to May. Off-season Julie fruit is not unheard of either. They are primarily an early season mango though with a majority of the fruit maturing between June and July.