Tommy Atkins Mango

Tommy Atkins was discovered as a naturally occurring hybrid in Florida in the 1920s and became, by a wide margin, the most commercially planted mango in the world through the late 20th century — not for exceptional flavor, which even its supporters generally rank below premium varieties like Alphonso, but for a genuinely tough skin and long shelf life that made it uniquely suited to international shipping in an era before refrigerated transport was as reliable as it is today.