Collection: Mango Trees For Sale

Everglades Farm grows over 100 grafted mango tree varieties on our nursery in Homestead, Florida. Every mango tree on this page is grafted onto seedling rootstock, container grown, and inspected by hand before it leaves the farm. Below you will find how to pick a cultivar for your yard, what grafting actually buys you, how ordering and shipping work, and answers to the questions our customers ask us most.

Mango Tree Varieties and Cultivars

Mango cultivars sort into three broad families, and knowing which family a tree belongs to tells you most of what you need to know about its fruit and its growth habit.

Florida cultivars. These were selected across the last century for disease resistance, dependable color, and shelf life. Kent is the benchmark late-season fruit, large and nearly fiberless. Keitt holds on the tree into September and stays green at full ripeness, so judge it by feel rather than by color. Tommy Atkins is the hardiest and most forgiving tree we sell, which is why it is still the most planted mango in the world. Valencia Pride produces long, sweet fruit on a vigorous, upright tree. Beverly ripens latest of all, well into September, and carries almost no fiber.

Indian cultivars. These lean aromatic, resinous, and intensely sweet. Alphonso is the cultivar most Indian growers measure the others against, saffron fleshed and heavily perfumed. Bombay is a small, richly flavored heirloom that fruits reliably in South Florida. Dasheri is elongated, honey sweet, and fiberless, and it is one of the more compact Indian trees in our field.

Ataulfo sits with the Mexican and Central American group, small and buttery with a slender seed, and it is the cultivar most Americans have eaten without knowing the name. Southeast Asian selections such as Nam Doc Mai, Maha Chanok, and Okrung Tong tend to be fiberless, slender seeded, and comfortable in humidity.

The trees themselves differ as much as the fruit. Carrie stays naturally small and dense with strong anthracnose resistance, which is why it is our most requested backyard tree in Miami-Dade. Our dwarf mango trees are the group to look at if you are short on room. Carrie, Cogshall, Ice Cream, Fairchild, Pickering, Julie, and Lil Gem all hold at a pickable height with light annual pruning, and every one of them fruits well in container growing setups where a full size canopy would never fit. A dwarf in a 15 gallon pot on a sunny patio will set fruit, and it can be wheeled under cover when a cold front comes through.

If you are buying your first mango tree, start with Glenn, Carrie, or Tommy Atkins. All three are forgiving of beginner mistakes and set fruit young.

Grafted Mango Trees and Propagation Methods

Every named mango is a clone. There is no way around that, and it is the single most important thing to understand before you buy.

A mango grown from a seed does not come true. A seedling from a monoembryonic seed carries a random mix of its parents, and you will wait six to eight years to find out what you got. Polyembryonic seeds behave better, producing several clonal seedlings alongside the zygotic one, which is exactly why we use those types as rootstock rather than as fruiting trees.

Grafting solves this. We cut a scion from a proven mother tree in our own blocks and join it to a vigorous seedling rootstock of matching diameter, usually by veneer or cleft graft, then wrap and seal the union until it knits. The resulting tree is a clone of the parent plant from the graft union up. This is asexual propagation, also called vegetative propagation, and it is the only propagation method that reliably reproduces a named cultivar.

What you get for it:

• Flowering and fruiting time. A grafted tree flowers and sets fruit in two to three years instead of the six to eight a seedling needs.
• Predictable fruit. Size, flesh color, flavor, and season all come true to the parent cultivar.
• Disease resistance. The anthracnose tolerance bred into cultivars like Carrie, Glenn, and Fairchild transfers with the scion.
• Dwarfing. Compact cultivars stay compact on our rootstock, so a dwarf mango tree behaves like a dwarf rather than reverting to a 40 foot canopy.

The seed itself decides which propagation method is even available. A monoembryonic seed produces one zygotic seedling that does not come true to the parent, which is why every named Indian cultivar has to be reproduced by grafting. A polyembryonic seed produces several clonal seedlings alongside the zygotic one, and those clonal seedlings largely do match the parent, which makes polyembryonic types our preferred rootstock material. This distinction between the two seed types is the whole reason a mango cannot be grown from a grocery store pit and still be the same mango.

Rootstock selection is not an afterthought. We choose vigorous polyembryonic rootstocks for root health, for tolerance of our calcareous soils, and for the dwarfing effect that keeps a compact cultivar compact. The same rootstock choice supports low water and low fertilizer input in a dooryard planting, because a well rooted tree simply needs less help. Serious mango breeding programs work the same way, evaluating a new selection on its own roots and then propagating the winner by vegetative propagation so the fruit quality and the disease resistance carry forward unchanged.

We graft during the warm season flush when the bark slips cleanly, keep scion and rootstock at matched diameters, and protect the union from sun and rain until it calluses. A failed graft almost always traces back to mismatched cambium or a union that dried out, which is why we hold our trees through a full establishment season before offering them for sale. The payoff is faster fruiting and predictable flowering and fruiting time in your yard rather than a decade of waiting to see what a seed produced.

Buying Mango Trees Online from Our Florida Nursery

Everything in this collection is Mangifera indica, grafted and grown at our own nursery in Homestead. We are the grower, not a reseller, so the tree that arrives at your door is the tree we raised.

Sizes and pot sizes. Trees are listed by height and container, and the pot size tells you more about what will arrive than the price does:

• 1 gallon liner, 12 to 24 inches. The least expensive way to start, from $19.95. Best for growers who are patient and want several cultivars.
• 3 gallon pot, 2 to 3 feet. Our most popular size and the one most people should buy. A tree in a 3 gallon pot establishes fast and usually fruits within two to three years.
• 7 gallon, 3 to 4 feet. A year or more ahead of the 3 gallon, and still light enough to handle without help.
• 15 gal pot, 6 to 8 feet. A tree in a 15 gal pot is already close to bearing age. These are heavy, so most customers take them by local pickup rather than freight. Up to $220 for our largest specimens.

Where to buy. You can buy every one of these mango trees online on this page, or walk the rows and pick your own tree at the nursery. Buying direct from the grower is the difference between a plant that has been shipped twice and a plant that has been shipped once. Big box garden centers rarely carry named mango cultivars at all, and the ones they do carry are usually unlabeled seedlings.

Availability. Popular cultivars sell out. The alphonso mango fruit tree and the tommy atkins mango fruit tree both move quickly in spring, and so does the Falan, a compact Thai selection that other nurseries list as the Fralan semi-dwarf grafted mango. Use the in-stock filter at the top of this page to see only what is ready to ship today.

Where these trees grow. Mangoes fruit outdoors in USDA zones 10 and up, and in warm pockets of zone 9b with cold protection. Outside that range, buy a dwarf for container growing and move it into a garage or greenhouse for the coldest nights. We say this plainly because we would rather sell you the right tree once than the wrong tree twice.

Local pickup. If you are within driving distance of Miami-Dade, order online and collect at the nursery at 19775 SW 296 Street, Homestead, FL 33030. Order pickup runs Monday through Saturday, 10am to 3pm. Picking up lets you take a larger tree than we could reasonably ship, and it costs you nothing in freight.

Certified shipping. Our nursery stock ships under Florida agricultural inspection. International orders generally require a phytosanitary certificate, so contact us before ordering from outside the United States. Full sale conditions, including our shipping and return terms, are set out in the section below.

Mango Tree Purchase Guarantees and Shipping Policies

We would rather tell you exactly how this works than make a promise we cannot keep.

Our guarantee. Some sellers advertise a 30 day warranty on nursery stock. We do not, because a tree's health after four weeks depends far more on how it was watered and sited than on how it left our farm. What we guarantee instead is plant condition on arrival. Inspect your tree the day it lands and report any damaged or unhealthy tree to csr@everglades.farm within 48 hours, with photographs, and we will make it right with a replacement or a refund. That window is short on purpose, because it is the only period in which we can tell our problem from a transit problem.

Packaging and delivery. Trees are staked, the root ball is secured, and the canopy is wrapped so it rides without whipping. Delivery within Florida is free above a minimum order that changes with the season. Everywhere else we pass through discounted rates with UPS, FedEx, and USPS. Hawaii, Alaska, and the U.S. territories require express service because of transit time. We cannot ship ground to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, or Montana, since a tropical tree does not survive that many days in a dark truck.

Weather advisory. Mangoes are damaged by cold in transit, so we hold shipments during extreme weather and we ask customers outside South Florida to order when average temperatures along the route are above 50°F. If a freeze or a storm is moving through, expect us to delay rather than to gamble with your tree.

Customer responsibility. Once the tree is in your hands, water it daily until it is planted. A tree that dries out in its pot on a driveway is not a warranty claim. Trees that have already been planted cannot be returned. Approved returns require prior authorization by email and may carry a 25% restocking fee, waived where there is severe transit damage, and original shipping charges are not refundable.

Installation. We do not offer a planting or installation service, and we do not subcontract one. Every tree ships ready to go in the ground, and the planting guidance in the next section is what our own field crew follows. Local customers who would rather not plant themselves are welcome to ask our staff for a referral to a landscaper in Miami-Dade.

Mango Tree Care Q&A

These are the questions our customer service inbox actually receives, answered the way we answer them on the phone.

Where should I plant my mango tree?
On the highest, brightest, best drained ground you have. Mango sunlight requirements are non negotiable at eight hours or more of direct sun, and good drainage matters even more than soil fertility. On flat Florida lots we plant on a mound of native soil two to three feet wide and about twelve inches high, which lifts the root crown above standing water through the summer rains. Set the graft union well above the soil line and backfill with native soil rather than a rich amendment.

What watering schedule does a new tree need?
Water deeply every two or three days for the first month, then taper to once a week through the first year. After that a mango is genuinely drought tolerant. The most common way our customers kill a new tree is overwatering, not underwatering, so let the top few inches dry between waterings and never let a pot sit in a saucer of water.

How do I fertilize a mango tree?
Young trees want a balanced fertilizer with added magnesium and micronutrients, applied lightly three or four times through the growing season. Once a tree reaches bearing age, switch to low-nitrogen mixes with higher potassium, which pushes the tree toward flowering instead of pushing out more leaves. Stop feeding by early fall so the last flush hardens before winter.

What hardiness zones can I grow in?
Reliable outdoor fruiting happens in hardiness zones 10 and 11. Mature trees tolerate brief dips to about 28 to 30°F, but a first year tree is far more tender. In zone 9b, plant on the south side of a structure and plan on cold protection with frost cloth and a trunk wrap for the first several winters.

Can I keep a mango in a container long term?
Yes, with a dwarf cultivar. A potted tree in a 15 to 25 gallon container will fruit for years if you give it full sun, a coarse and fast draining mix, and a hard prune after each harvest to hold its size. Root prune and refresh the top few inches of media every second or third year.

When does a mango flower and when does it fruit?
The flowering period runs from December through March in South Florida, triggered by cool, dry weather. The fruiting period follows roughly 100 to 150 days after fruit set, which puts most of our harvest between June and September. Early cultivars like Rosigold ripen in May, and Keitt and Beverly carry into September. Planting one early, one mid, and one late cultivar stretches fresh fruit across the whole summer.

My flowers turned black and dropped. What happened?
That is almost certainly anthracnose, the fungal disease that blackens flower panicles and spots fruit during wet springs. It is the number one mango problem in Florida. Open the canopy with selective pruning so air moves through it, apply copper at flowering, and clear fallen leaves and fruit from under the tree. Choosing a resistant cultivar such as Carrie, Glenn, or Fairchild removes most of the problem before it starts.

How do I know when a mango is ready to pick?
Not by color. Judge by shape. A mature fruit stops enlarging, the shoulders fill out, and the nose at the beak end plumps and rounds. A picked fruit that sinks in water is mature and one that floats is not. Mangoes are climacteric, so pick them firm and ripen them on the counter at room temperature. Never refrigerate a hard mango, since chilling unripe fruit causes off flavors and pitting.

Start Your Mango Grove

Browse the collection above by size, cultivar, and season. If you are not sure which mango tree suits your yard, your climate, or your taste, email csr@everglades.farm or call 305-704-8828 during nursery hours. We are growers first, and we would rather spend ten minutes matching you to the right tree than process a return.