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Description: Small and yellow with a cult-favorite rush of coconut, resin, and bubblegum.

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# 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.](https://mangoranking.com/fruit/photos/carrie-photo-v1.jpg)

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](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mango_Carrie_Asit_fs8.jpg) · [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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](https://mangoranking.com/seasons.md)

## 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.

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Carrie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/carrie)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Angie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/angie)

**Sophie Frey / Sophia Frey**

Names used for the seed parent, not aliases for Carrie.

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Carrie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/carrie)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Angie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/angie)

**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 story](https://mangoranking.com/stories/carrie.md)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Carrie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/carrie)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Angie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/angie)

## Places 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.

  - [Gentile et al.: nine mango cultivars in an Acquedolci orchard trial (2019)](https://iris.unive.it/retrieve/e4239ddd-e7b8-7180-e053-3705fe0a3322/1-s2.0-S0308814618318843-main.pdf)

- **Acquedolci, Sicily, Italy**

  Research trial

  Grown in the nine-cultivar orchard experiment conducted in 2015 and published in 2019.

  - [Gentile et al.: nine mango cultivars in an Acquedolci orchard trial (2019)](https://iris.unive.it/retrieve/e4239ddd-e7b8-7180-e053-3705fe0a3322/1-s2.0-S0308814618318843-main.pdf)

- **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.

  - [Tropical Acres Farms — Carrie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/carrie)

  - [Tropical Acres Farms — Angie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/angie)

[Harvest calendars by growing place](https://mangoranking.com/seasons.md). These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.

## Sources

- [Gentile et al.: nine mango cultivars in an Acquedolci orchard trial (2019)](https://iris.unive.it/retrieve/e4239ddd-e7b8-7180-e053-3705fe0a3322/1-s2.0-S0308814618318843-main.pdf)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Carrie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/carrie)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Angie](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/angie)

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