Mangifera indica (common names: An Lo Kuo)

I would love to try these mangoes, they look different from the two varieties they sell here in my area.

Delicioso photo :)

Brilliant coloursl!! This composition has an almost oriental artistry - and the "neglected" fruit seems so good too.

Wow Marguerite, what beautiful mangoes, I love eating them and always buy them, lucky you!

Thank you Marguerite, I will post a photo of the results. Dont forget tropical fruit is much older by the time it reaches us in Blighty.

Mouth watering photo Marquerite!!

Hi Ams, perhaps you have never had a ripe one! A ripe mango is easy, you just give a cut into the skin, peel it off just like that, then cut slices off the fruit till you hit the seed, suck the flesh off the seed, yummy.
Alternatively you can cut the fruit in half, but around the seed in the middle, then fold the fruit inside out, cut a pattern in it, diagonally and across and eat the fruit away from the peel. I do agree, you do get sticky hands, but it is fingerlicking good, lol.
Sorry Celandine for tantalising you.... I just thought it was such a bright coloured picture and the frangi panies matched so well with the fruit.

Why are you tantalising us like this? I would like to eat them now!

I love mango but have never mastered the art of preparing them to eat. I make such a mess.

I can tell you, they really tasted wonderful, sweet and juicy.

That's almost too pretty to eat, Marguerite, but the fruit does look delicious.

There were too many mango orchards at one stage and the people who didn't look after them well enough of course didn't get a cracker for them. Others kept going, even when the market plunged. So some just walked off the land, trying to sell or sold the place just to live on. But as everyone has mangoes there in the area, nobody bothers about them, they get enough to eat as it is. The real growers have kept going and are doing much better now. Kensington Pride is by far my favourite variety, sweet and juicy!

I wonder why this orchard was neglected. This is a bit like the prickly pears in the South of Italy that are so succulent and sweet, despite limited water

Perhaps I should start exporting them Lorraine. But I think you might get them in the US, in warmer regions where they grow mangoes. Just google a bit and you might find them. I would look under mango picking tools....

I can never reach the crabapples at the top of my tree and they look so juicy and red, wish I had one of these pickers, what a great idea!

Peaches are so much softer than mangoes and they probably would get wrecked. Peaches and apricots are picked in trays and on cherry pickers.

How ingenious Marguerite!! We could do with one to pick the peaches and apricots, altho' I suppose you'd need quite a long sturdy stem for it to work ...