Mega mango - Clarendon woman wants to know more about plus-size sweet fruit

Best friends Rose Nelson and Pauline Salmon-Reid are casual mango lovers at best, but when a mango tree in Nelson's neighbour's yard started bearing some massive fruits, their interests were piqued.

According to the Clarendon dressmaker, a few years ago, her neighbour bought what she thought was an East Indian mango tree. Now grown to full size, the tree is finally bearing fruit.

"I don't know when she buy it, but this is the third year we getting fruit from it. The very first year, it bear only one," Nelson explained.

She said that after that first year, every mango season since then, the tree blossoms with dozens and dozens of mangoes. This year after sharing her novel experience with her best friend Pauline Salmon-Reid, she decided to carry one of the rare fruits for her to experience.

When Salmon-Reid finally received her summer fruit she could not contain her amusement.

"I've never seen a mango this size," she mused. "I was in awe, my co-worker look at it and say 'hell no that's a melon'. So far I've spoken to an elderly gentleman, who is in his 80s, and he has never seen anything like this."

Nelson chimed in, "I brought it for her and she say 'no man this mango needs to be highlighted'. All of them are like that," she said referring to the peculiar size. "But what usually happens is they fall off the tree before they ripe. I guess maybe its because of the weight."

While the pair is endlessly amused with their edible enigma, they are very curious about what type of mango they actually have in their midst.

"We are trying to find out the name of it but so far we are unable to, nobody seems to know the name," Nelson said.