We call this one manila, never heard the name ataulfo before ... we're not commercial growers or very scientific about it ... we also have mango criollo, which is like manila, a little bigger and with spotted skin ... mango manzano, in the shape of an apple more or less, and with very thick skin, color yellow ... mango rosa, which is quite red before ripening when it is pink ... mango pájaro, long like a banana and flat ... manga poblana, the size and shape of a man's hand flattened ... and mango california, small thin and very sweet, my second favorite after manila.
Once in the Cook Islands i met a man who was involved in growing or studying mangos, can't remember which, and he told me there were eight hundred varieties ... well i thought the number was incredible, and hesitated to repeat it, but then your site here says there are a thousand -g-
Ataúlfo was the first king of the visigoths of Spain, 410-415, says this diccionario ... but my wife confirms, that's mango manila, that picture ... of course the indonesians would have their own word ... and since when the spanish brought them over the last harbor before Acapulco would have been Manila, it's obvious how that name got generally applied. |
