Maldivian Mango

During our examination we did a full description of the Maldivian Variety and made some remarkable findings about it. We found a tree more than 300 years old (est.) in S.Hulhudhoo and several other old age trees in Gn.Fuvahmullah. So we can clearly state the variety as being indigenous to Maldives. We were also able to state that our variety has high fiber content and has a remarkably good shelf life after being harvested, (15-20 days at least). Upon investigating the seed we could clearly identify it as polyembryonic; which came to us as a surprise as it is very rare to find a small mango variety like this to have polyembryonic seeds. It also meant a lot of good things about our variety. It meant that there is no chance for us to loose our variety due to any cross breeding or create new strains of the variety. And there is a high chance that this variety is not closely related to any Indian or other Asian variety making it quite possible that this variety is our own and not to be found anywhere else in the world. Having polyembryonic seeds also means that with one seed 4-6 plants will grow. This can be noticed in many households which has mangoes where we noticed that there are always more 2-3 trees growing close by to each other.