This variety of mango is well adapted to the environment of the Canary Islands. It can be seen thriving in windy areas with rocky soils. It is unscathed by cool and wet winters and fruits very well and regularly. It is found on many islands and it was probably, initially brought from Cuba. The name Gomera refers to the island of La Gomera, one of the seven islands of our archipelago. This is where Canarian agronomists collected the first samples to study this mango which is quite common in the rural areas of the islands.  Fruits are yellow, small to average size (250 g average), with  very good flavour, sweet, aromatic, with a high content in fibres.

Yellow fruits of the Cold Hardy Canarian Mango named Gomera - 1

Cultivation

It needs just the same conditions of any other mango trees. It is reproduced from seed. As a polyembrionic Mango, 90% of the seedlings are true to type. Adult trees are able to flower up to 3 times a year. If it is too cold or wet, they will loose the inflorescences and flower again, about 2 months later, until the right season for fruit set is matched. In order to achieve larger fruits sizes, it is good to remove by hand 1/3 of the fruits from the bunch. Gomera-1 fruits outdoors in coastal Mediterranean climates and it needs little or no protection in coastal Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece and also in the French Riviera.

Use as Root Stock for Grafting

Mango Gomera is regularly used as a rootstock for grafting throughout the Canary Islands and also in Andalusia. The use of the Canarian Hardy Mango as a rootstock permitted to push the commercial production of Mango in the Mediterranean basin, because the roots are hardier to cold and wet soil. All the different varieties of mango trees that we offer for sale are grafted on Gomera-1 rootstocks, so our customers in Europe will get the benefit of some added cold resistance from the roots.

Gomera mango trees used as a rootstock to graft different varieties

Scientific Literature in Spanish about Mango Gomera

Mejora del Mango en Canarias

Gomera-1 en el programa de mejora del Mango

Buy cold hardy mango trees in our Shop

In our shop you can purchase small trees of Gomera mangos and also a wide selection of mango trees of different varieties. All trees are grafted by hand, with specific cultivars. We ship to any countries in Europe. Try also our delicious Mango jam with or without sugar, in the honeys & jams section, produced with the mangoes of the Canary Islands.

This palm grows a bit faster in the Canary Islands and many specimens are cultivated in Tenerife for sale. Red-leaf-palms are highly demanded palms in Europe.

Canarius.com offers different sizes of Chambeyronia and will ship them to your home. Some examples are:

This video shows larger palms of the same species grown in the ground in Southern Tenerife. These are also cultivated for commercial purposes. It is spectacular to see so many red leaves.

Not all palms are tropical plants. Many palm species can resist snow and frost. Come and visit our shop at www.canarius.com . We offer above 100 palm species and will ship to your home.

Namibia – Köcherbaumwald

The original text in Youtube is …

Drive to and walk through the quiver tree forest (Kokerboomwoud) and the playground of the giants in the east of Namibia. Travelogue Namibia www.freudenthal.biz

Fahrt zum und Spaziergang durch den Köcherbaumwald (Kokerboomwoud) und Spielplatz der Riesen im Osten Namibias. Reisebericht Namibia auf www.freudenthal.biz

Visit our shop at www.canarius.com . We have a large section of Aloe, Gasteria and Haworthia and we ship living plants to anywhere in Europe.

Four species of exotic fruits are really interesting. They are now available and they are becoming tall – all of them are 50-80 cm in height. All are very fast growing and some are very rare in cultivation.   

1.  Cyphomandra betacea – Tamarillo, Tomate de Arbol
2. Carica cundinamarcensis (Now Vasconcella) – Mountain Papaya – Papaya de los Andes.  Trunk base is 4-5 cm NOW.
3.  Solanum quitoense – Lulo – Leaves are 40-50 cm wide NOW.
4. Physalis alkekengi – Farolillo chino, Alquequenje, Chinese Lantern Fruit 

Come and visit the FRUIT TREE SECTION of our shop at www.canarius.com  (read below and find a list of the available fruit plants)

Cyphomandra betacea - Tree Tomato, Tomate de Árbol

Solanum quitoense - Lulo, Naranjilla

Other fruit trees now available in the shop are:

Come and visit the FRUIT TREE SECTION of our shop at www.canarius.com

We also started a new category of succulent plants “Crassulaceae“.

Banner for the new category CRASSULACEAE

About Mangos : Most new varieties of mango are now hardening in the nursery so they will be available in May 2011, but you can now see which varieties will be ready for sale. 

Other additions are also scattered in other categories.

We have not yet started to publish the new items for Spring – this will be done in a week or so – but the list is growing dramatically because we will add more palms and succulents than we expected.

So, below you will find new additions to the lists published  a few weeks ago.

The COMPLETE LIST IS HERE: “new-plants-for-spring-2011-at-www-canarius-com“

This bare-root Aloe microstigma will be soon available at 5 Euros !

PALMS

• Arenga hookeriana
• Butia odorata
• Cryosophila guagara
• Cyphophoenix elegans
• Cyphophoenix nucele
• Dypsis cabadae
• Euterpe edulis
• Guihaia argyrata
• Pritchardia munroi

ALOE, GASTERIA AND HAWORTHIA

• Aloe aristata
• Aloe bakeri
• Aloe brevifolia
• Aloe brevifolia
• Aloe jacksonii
• Aloe jucunda
• Aloe juvenna
• Aloe microstigma
• Aloe reynoldsii
• Aloe striata
• Gasteria bicolor var. liliputana
• Gasteria carinata
• Haworthia limifolia
• Haworthia reinwardtii
• Haworthia rigida
• Haworthia truncata
• Haworthia venosa
• Haworthia venosa

CRASSULACEAE

• Adromischus cooperi
• Adromischus triflorus
• Aeonium arboreum cv. Zwartkop
• Cotyledon tomentosa
• Cotyledon woodii x velutiana Natural hybrid
• Crassula coccinea cv. Flame
• Crassula cornuta
• Crassula nealeana nana branched
• Crassula orbiculata var. orbiculata
• Crassula ovata cv. Hobbit
• Crassula rupestris var. marnieriana
• Crassula sarmentosa variegata
• Echeveria albicans
• Echeveria runyonii „Topsi Turvi“
• Echeveria tolimanensis
• Graptopetalum amethystina
• Kalanchoe beharensis
• Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri
• Kalanchoe millotii
• Pachyphytum longifolium
• Pachyphytum longifolium
• Sedum burrito

MESEMBRYANTHEMACEAE

• Argyroderma fissum
• Carruanthus ringens
• Cephalophyllum pillansii
• Cheiridopsis candidissima
• Cheiridopsis purpurea
• Lapidaria margarethae
• Pleiospilos nelii
• Pleispilos bolusii
• Rhombophyllum nelii

OTHER SUCCULENTS

• Dasylirion zacateca
• Anacampseros telephiastrum
• Euphorbia resinifera fuerte branched
• Hoya obovata, minimo 5 hojas
• Hoya pubicalyx cv. Pink Silver
• Hoya pubicalyx cv. Red Button
• Portulacaria afra variegata
• Portulacaria afra variegata
• Rhipsalis pilocarpa
• Selenicereus maynardii Red Flowers
• Senecio crassissimus

This is just a preview. Products are not yet available. Furthermore, there is not exactly a “new catalog” . We keep a dynamic website, so new products will be added little by little, since late March to mid June. As we did during the past few years the catalog will grow larger because we will add new plants but we will also keep about all the existing species in the website.

What will be new?

More than 100 new species will be added and all categories will substantially be increased! Read the list at the bottom of this post and you will find the new products for www.canarius.com : palms, cycads, bromeliads, fruit trees, aloes and lots of other succulent plants. These lists are not exact but they will give you a preview of what we wish to offer.

What else will happen?

The nurseries are increasing their stock of Agave, Bromeliads and Exotic Fruit Trees. Probably not in Spring, but by the end of 2011 you will see lots of new entries in these categories. Also our offer of foods is going to rise substantially.

Succulent plants will become very important in our shop. We increase dramatically our offer of aloes and we will create new categories for Crassulaceae and Mesembryanthemaceae.

Fruit trees will be also be offered soon in smaller sized pots.  The trees we have sold so far are grown in tall, heavier pots and they are a bit too expensive to ship. Many of our customers requested smaller sizes for a cheaper shipment.

What about prices?

We cannot push the price down, but our stock of Palms and Cycads is growing larger and we will not rise the price. About all palms and cycads now offered in the website are already larger than stated (measurements refer to July 2010).

Also are trying to work smaller pot sizes in many plants in order to lower shipping costs.

Can I reserve items?

You cannot reserve an item which is not yet published in the catalog.

All the new plants will be available  soon. Please come back and check.

New Palms for Spring 2011

• Arenga hookeriana
• Butia odorata
• Carpentaria acuminata
• Chamadorea ernesti-augusti
• Chamadorea microspadix
• Chamadorea pinnatifrons
• Chamadorea plumosa
• Chamadorea radicalis
• Coccothrinax boschiana
• Corypha umbraculifera
• Cryosophila guagara
• Cyphophoenix elegans
• Cyphophoenix nucele
• Dictyocaryum lamarckianum
• Dypsis onilahensis
• Dypsis pembana
• Dypsis pinnatifrons
• Dypsis cabadae
• Euterpe edulis
• Guihaia argyrata
• Pritchardia munroi
• Washingtonia robusta
  

  Chamadorea plumosa. This picture was taken in mid 2010. Now they are MUCH larger, ready for sale. Some are too tall!

New Bromeliads for Spring 2011

• Aechmea aquilega
• Aechmea nudicaulis
• Aechmea kertesziae (Frost Hardy)
• Neoregelia joannis
• Neoregelia olens
• Neoregelia spectabilis Hoja Ancha (Wide Leaf)
• Billbergia leptopoda
• Billbergia vittata
• Billbergia x Catherine Wilson
• Billbergia x Muriel Waterman
• Quesnelia lateralis
  

  Billbergia x Muriel Waterman is a sought after, uncommon hybrid.

New Tropical Fruit Trees for Spring 2011

We did not receive the list yet. We will add some new varieties of fruit trees.

New Cycads for Spring 2011

• Ceratozamia hildae
• Cycas shanyaensis
• Cycas X revoluta x debaoensis
• Macrozamia glaucophylla
• Macrozamia johnsonii
• Lepidozamia peroffskiana
• Encephalartos eugene-maraisii
  

  Ceratozamia hildae, slow but hardy to frost

New Aloes, Gasterias and Haworthias  for Spring 2011

• Aloe aristata
• Aloe bakeri
• Aloe brevifolia
• Aloe jacksonii
• Aloe jucunda
• Aloe juvenna
• Aloe microstigma
• Aloe reynoldsii
• Aloe striata
• Aloe wickensii
• Aloe cv Pink Blush
• Aloe rivierei
• Aloe dichotoma
• Aloe dyeri
• Aloe maculata
• Aloe lateritia var graminicola
• Aloe ellenbecki
• Aloe juvenna
• Aloe jacksonii
• Aloe kedongensis
• Aloe parvibracteta hybrid
• Aloe prinsloii
• Aloe scorpioides
• Aloe x Nuwerus
• Aloe aff lineata
• Aloe dewetti
• Aloe x reitzii F1
• Aloe x reitzii F2

• Gasteria carinata var verrucosa
• Gasteria bicolor var. liliputana
• Gasteria carinata

• Haworthia reinwardtii
• Haworthia rigida
• Haworthia truncata
• Haworthia venosa
• Haworthia  limifolia var. limifolia
• Haworthia  limifolia var. ubomboensis
• Haworthia  retusa
• Haworthia  rigida
  

  Elegant hybrid of Aloe reitzii

New Agaves for Spring 2011

• Agave attenuata var cerulata
• Agave potatorum
• Agave victoria reginae
• +8 more species and hybrids

New Crassulaceae for Spring 2011

The list below shows about 1/3 of what we plan to offer. We will create a new category for this family of succulent plants.

• Adromischus cooperi
• Adromischus triflorus
• Aeonium arboreum cv. Zwartkop
• Aeonium cv. Kiwi
• Cotyledon orbiculata var. spuria
• Crassula capitella cv. Campfire
• Crassula lycopoides variegata
• Crassula ovata Hummels Sunset
• Crassula rossularis
• Crassula tetragona
• Cotyledon tomentosa
• Cotyledon woodii x velutiana Natural hybrid
• Crassula coccinea cv. Flame
• Crassula cornuta
• Crassula nealeana nana branched
• Crassula orbiculata var. orbiculata
• Crassula ovata cv. Hobbit
• Crassula rupestris var. marnieriana
• Crassula sarmentosa variegata
• Echeveria albicans
• Echeveria runyonii „Topsi Turvi“
• Echeveria tolimanensis
• Graptopetalum amethystina
• Kalanchoe beharensis
• Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri
• Kalanchoe millotii
• Pachyphytum longifolium
• Sedum burrito
• x Pachyveria  exotica

• 

  Crassula 'Blue Hale' is a selection with colourful foliage

New Mesembryanthemaceae for Spring 2011

We will create a new category for this family of succulent plants.

• Argyroderma fissum
• Carruanthus ringens
• Cephalophyllum pillansii
• Cheiridopsis candidissima
• Cheiridopsis purpurea
• Lapidaria margarethae
• Pleiospilos nelii
• Pleispilos bolusii
• Rhombophyllum nelii

New “Other Succulents” for Spring 2011

• Sansevieria cv Gloden Hahnii
• Jathropha podagrica
• Albuca humilis
• Cissus  quadrangularis
• Cissus  rotundifolia
• Kleinia neriifolia
• Lophophora willamsii
• Dasylirion zacateca
• Anacampseros telephiastrum
• Euphorbia resinifera fuerte branched
• Hoya obovata
• Hoya pubicalyx cv. Pink Silver
• Hoya pubicalyx cv. Red Button
• Portulacaria afra variegata
• Rhipsalis pilocarpa
• Selenicereus maynardii Red Flowers
• Senecio crassissimus

Himalayan Windmill Palms in the Wild

Trachycarpus is a genus of cold-hardy palms native to Asia. The video shows them in habitat in the steepest hills of the world. The beautiful pictures show two species: Trachycarpus fortunei and Trachycarpus takil.

The description in youtube says:

“Himalayan Windmill palms grow in a disconnected grove across the Himalayan orogeny in a transect of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Mekong and Chang rivers, on almost inaccessible slopes and ridges of four of the deepest, wildest canyons on earth. Some of the region remains unknown to the hands and feet of man. This is a rare look at some of these palms in the wild.

Music: Snow Wears Down the Mountain, scored for Indian and Chinese traditional instruments and string orchestra, based on two pentatonic scales. “

The shop at www.canarius.com offers more than 100 palm species, including these two trachycarpus species. Visit the PALM SECTION of our SHOP!

The smallest size of Trachycarpus takil in our shop

Charlie Dill's picture of Aechmea triangularis, blooming after a freeze

Aechmea triangularis can take low temperatures with little or no damage at -6 C (18 F) for several hours. About its cold tolerance, there is an interesting report written by Charlie Dill about different bromeliads surviving to -6 C (21 F) in California has texts and pictures of this species.

LINK TO CHARLIE DILL’S FROST DAMAGE REPORT OF AECHMEA TRIANGULARIS AND OTHER BROMELIADS

Charlie Dill's picture of an unscathed Aechmea triangularis

Our Shop

Please visit the Bromeliad Section of our Shop and check back often, because we offerent different bromeliads at different times of the year. We ship bromeliads to anywhere in Europe. Our bromeliads are already growing in many European countries, such as Spain, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Germany. All bromeliads in catalogue are sold as bare-rooted “pups”, which are the robust basal suckers produced after blooming. Our pups are very easy to root – some will already show some roots when you open the box.

Mango Irwin

Areas with Commercial Mango Production in Europe

• Canary Islands (Spain)
• Andalucía (Spain)
• Sicilia (Italy)

Areas where Mango Trees Grow and Fruit

• Coastal Southern Portugal
• Coastal Southern Italy
• Coastal Southern Spain
• Coastal Greece
• The Southern islands such as Malta, Crete and Cyprus.
• Trees with little protection can fruit in Southern France, Riviera.

Mango trees are also grown in the Southern Mediterranean, in Northern African countries and Israel.

Buy mango trees in Europe

In our internet shop you can purchase a wide selection of young mango trees of different varieties. They are all grafted on the cold-hardy rootstock Gomera-1. Canarius offers more than 20 varieties of grafted mango trees. We ship from the Canary Islands to your place the same grafted trees that are sold to local farmers , ready to go to the field: same plants, same size, same deep pots. The plants you purchase are at least 2 years old, because the root trees are grown for 1,5 years before grafting.