Tryman Sutandya's, a mango collector in Blitar, West Java, was anxious in waiting for the arrival of Mahathir, a variety of mango from Kinabalu, Malaysia. Mahathir is a variety of jumbo mango weighing up to 2,75 kg with yellow thick juicy flesh and fine fiber. It tastes sweet and somewhat sour.
Jumbo size mango can also be found in Indonesia, to be precisely in North West Alor Subdistrict. It is called Alor variety, a type of unripe harvested mango. The fruit is of coconut-fruit size, weighing 1 kg each. The fruit tastes best while still unripe. When it is ripe, it will also taste sweet, but unfortunately the flesh is extremely sloppy and fibrous. The best Alor variety can only be found in North West Alor where the soil texture is dominant in sandy dust or dusty sand which is perfect for the growth of Alor variety.
Besides mahathir, another imported variety is pedro which is native to Mexico. Pedro also has giant fruit. For that reason, dr Kerry R Kartosen SpOG grows pedro. Pedro variety has round fruit that weighs 1,3 kg at maximum. The skin is attracting with red tint on the fruit basal.
Ricky Hadimulya, a fruit collector in Bogor, also imported a variety of jumbo mango, nam dok mai man, from Thailand to be grown in Bogor. Nam dok mai man has a bigger figure than nam dok mai-a foregoing jumbo variety-and weighs up to 1,2 kg. Unfortunately, the taste is slightly sour and the flesh is too juicy. Perhaps the reason is that it is grown in Bogor of which rainfall is high. Accordingly, nam dok mai man is now being grown in Karawang, a relatively dry area.
Back to overseas, in Thailand there is cingnangwah, a type of unripe harvested mango that tastes sweet and crunchy though still unripe. The weight may reach 950 g. When the fruit is ripe, the flesh will be orange and the taste will be mixed with sour taste but yet sweeter than pedro. (Imam Wiguna/ Reporter: Tri Susanti)
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