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Description: The Cuban account locates an early tree near Jovellanos.

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# Filipino

The Cuban account locates an early tree near Jovellanos.

## About this name

This record preserves a local name and its context. A complete tasting guide and cultivar photograph have not yet been added.

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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.

**Filipino**

Cuba

Name preserved in the cited Cuban cultivar records.

- [UNDP / Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

- [Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)](https://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?pid=S0002-192X2002000400003&script=sci_arttext)

**Filipino Amarillo**

The specific form whose introduction the manual describes.

- [Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing / UNDP, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

**Manila**

Related name discussed by the manual; not a universal identity claim.

- [Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing / UNDP, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

## A Philippine introduction at a Cuban sugar estate

Documented history: consult the claims and qualifications in the cited sources.

The technical manual traces Filipino Amarillo to a Philippine introduction planted at Nueva Luisa, an old sugar estate near Jovellanos, Matanzas. It records later variation within Filipino descendants. Its comparison with Manila does not establish identity with every Philippine Carabao selection.

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- [Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing / UNDP, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

## Places in this record

Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.

- **Cuba**

  Catalogue association

  A mango name used in Cuba for material introduced from the Philippines. A Cuban technical manual relates Filipino to the name Manila, while also noting variation among Filipino descendants; its exact relationship to the Philippine Carabao selection is uncertain.

  - [UNDP / Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

  - [Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)](https://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?pid=S0002-192X2002000400003&script=sci_arttext)

- **Philippines → Nueva Luisa, Matanzas, Cuba**

  A place in the story

  Setting of “A Philippine introduction at a Cuban sugar estate”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.

  - [Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing / UNDP, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

- **Philippines**

  A recorded historical connection

  Place associated in the cited history; this is not a claim of botanical origin.

  - [Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing / UNDP, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

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

## Sources

- [UNDP / Cuban Institute of Tropical Fruit Growing, Cultivo y comercialización del mango (2023)](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-08/MANGO%20Cultivo%20y%20Comercializacion%20WEB.pdf)

- [Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)](https://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?pid=S0002-192X2002000400003&script=sci_arttext)

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