Carrie
Small and yellow with a cult-favorite rush of coconut, resin, and bubblegum.
Carrie mangoes displayed at the Redland Summer Fruit Festival, Florida. Individual fruit and maturity vary.
Mango Carrie Asit fs8.jpg — Asit K. Ghosh (Thaumaturgist). Photograph source · CC BY-SA 3.0.
Resized for display; complete frame retained. No generative edits.
How it tastes
buttery · Low fibre
- Texture
- buttery
- Fibre
- Low fibre
- Eating styles
- Bring a spoon
- Harvest
- See regional calendars
How to enjoy it
Carrie can suggest resin, coconut or even bubblegum to different eaters. It is a mango to smell before you taste, and to eat when properly soft rather than simply colourful.
Cut ripe cheeks and scoop with a spoon. Taste the flesh plain before adding it to a dessert.
When it is ripe
Eat it fragrant and soft, often while the skin still carries some green.
Flavour notes are subjective. Ripeness, handling and growing conditions change the fruit.
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Names, history & sources
Recorded names
A shared name does not by itself establish an identical cultivar. Place, language and source matter.
- Carrie
Named for Carrie Zill, Laurence Zill’s mother.
- Sophie Frey / Sophia Frey
Names used for the seed parent, not aliases for Carrie.
- Carrie Zill mango
Existing catalogue label. It may be an alternate name, translation or market nickname; it is not an assertion of genetic identity.
A mother’s name, a lucky surviving tree
Documented history: consult the claims and qualifications in the cited sources.
Carrie was selected by the Zill family in the 1940s from a field of seedlings intended for rootstock. Its family line ran through Sophie Frey to the Caribbean Julie. Instead of remaining an anonymous support for a graft, this seedling became worth growing for its own fruit.
The family named it for Carrie Zill, Laurence Zill’s mother. It is a lovely reversal of the usual catalogue story: a fruit now admired by collectors began in practical nursery work and kept a mother’s name. Later selections, including Angie, continued that family of mangoes.
Read the full storyPlaces in this record
Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.
- Florida
Catalogue association
Associated place in the tasting catalogue; this does not establish botanical origin.
- Italy
Research trial
Grown in the nine-cultivar orchard experiment conducted in 2015 and published in 2019.
- Acquedolci, Sicily, Italy
Research trial
Grown in the nine-cultivar orchard experiment conducted in 2015 and published in 2019.
- United States
Catalogue association
Associated country guide; cultivation, naming and origin are different claims.
- Boynton Beach / Delray Beach, Florida, United States
A place in the story
Setting of “A mother’s name, a lucky surviving tree”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.
Harvest calendars by growing place. These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.