Tommy Atkins

Recorded names

A shared name does not by itself establish an identical cultivar. Place, language and source matter.

Tommy Atkins

Venezuela

Named for Thomas H. Atkins of Fort Lauderdale.

• Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)
• Tropical Acres Farms — Tommy Atkins

Tommy

A shortened market name.

• Tropical Acres Farms — Tommy Atkins

The supermarket regular

Existing catalogue label. It may be an alternate name, translation or market nickname; it is not an assertion of genetic identity.

The grower who kept believing

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

Thomas H. Atkins raised the Haden seedling planted in 1922 that would carry his name. He submitted its fruit to the Florida Mango Forum’s variety committee more than once. The committee objected to its fibre and flavour.

Atkins saw something else: attractive fruit, abundant crops and the ability to survive handling. He persuaded growers to plant it, and its commercial journey spread through Latin America and the supermarket trade. Whatever you think of a particular bite, there is a person’s persistence behind that familiar sticker.

• Tropical Acres Farms — Tommy Atkins

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.

• Venezuela

  Catalogue association

  A mango cultivar included in the Venezuelan INIA-CENIAP collection and flowering research.

  • Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)
• Italy

  Research trial

  Included in the 2015 orchard experiment, rather than a current availability survey.

  • Gentile et al.: nine mango cultivars in an Acquedolci orchard trial (2019)
• Acquedolci, Sicily, Italy

  Research trial

  Included in the 2015 orchard experiment, rather than a current availability survey.

  • Gentile et al.: nine mango cultivars in an Acquedolci orchard trial (2019)
• United States

  Catalogue association

  Associated country guide; cultivation, naming and origin are different claims.

• Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

  A place in the story

  Setting of “The grower who kept believing”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.

  • Tropical Acres Farms — Tommy Atkins

Harvest calendars by growing place. These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.

Sources

• Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)
• Gentile et al.: nine mango cultivars in an Acquedolci orchard trial (2019)
• Tropical Acres Farms — Tommy Atkins