CITRON: BUDDHA HAND
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Lemon Yellow | Harvest: June-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Buddha's Hand citron is a tree citrus with a deep lemon yellow colour when mature. The fruit morphs from small and purple, to green, and then yellow, splitting at the opposite end of the tree's stem forming segments that have a wild finger-like appearance. A fruit will have its own unique shape and can range in size, from a large lemon to a small melon. Buddha's Hand citron features an oily rind with a fragrant sweet lemon scent. Its flesh is void of juice, pulp, and seeds, and is inedible in its raw form. Buddha's Hand citron is commonly utilized for its zest and has a flavour that is described as a blend of bitter and sweet acidity. Harvest in late fall through early winter months. 10th century AD. |
CITRON: ETROG
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Slow | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Oct | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Small and shrubby with an open growth habit. The new growth and flowers are flushed with purple and the trees are sensitive to frost. The leaves are oblong but slightly pointed and somewhat rumpled with serrate margins. The fruit looks somewhat like an oblong lemon, but with a shape that approximates the flame of a candle. The mature fruit is considerably larger than a lemon. The rind is yellow, glossy, thick and bumpy. It is very fragrant, with a distinctive aroma of violets derived from beta-ion one. The fruits hold well on the tree. Etrog primarily are grown for Jewish ritual use in the Sukkot harvest festival, held in September or October. Recorded from the time of Alexander Jannaeus (104-78 B.C.). Blemished specimens, and fruits from grafted trees, are sometimes sold for culinary use. The rind is used to make preserves, and as a flavouring ingredient for savoury dishes, desserts and alcoholic beverages. |
CLEMENTINE: ALGERIAN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 2'C (36'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Needs Pollinator | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit size variable, ranging from medium-small to medium; variable, slightly oblate through globose to oblong and occasionally with small navel. Rind medium in thickness; moderately firm and adherent, but easily peelable and does not puff until well after maturity; surface smooth and glossy, but slightly pebbled because of prominent oil glands; Flesh colour deep orange; tender and melting; juicy; flavour sweet; sub acid and aromatic. Seeds very few to medium in number (depending on cross-pollination). Tree medium in vigour and size, spreading and round-topped; branchlets fine-stemmed, willowy, and nearly thornless; foliage dense. Leaves highly variable in size, narrowly lanceolate in form, and somewhat resembling the Mediterranean or Willow-leaf mandarin. In most locations, regular and satisfactory bearing is assured only by the provision of cross-pollination. Tree strongly cold-resistant. 1914 |
CLEMENTINE: FINA SODEA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Dark Orange-Red | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1925. Seedless fruit, small with dark orange-red colour. Juicy and flavourful. The tree is vigorous, with dense foliage and produces a good crop of fruit which is still regarded as one of the best flavours. |
GRAPEFRUIT: DUNCAN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Light Yellow | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: The fruit is almost round and has a smooth, light yellow rind. The flesh is very pale yellow, juicy, and seedy. The flavour is considered by many to be superior to similar seedless grapefruit varieties. Duncan is considered to be somewhat early in maturity. The fruit holds well on the tree. |
GRAPEFRUIT: FLAME
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow staying Green with low light heat | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Dark red seedless grapefruit. Peel is thin with a red blush. Fruit is sweet and juicy. Tree is large with a heavy canopy and bears in clusters. Flame was released as a new variety in 1987. |
GRAPEFRUIT: MELOGOLD
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Medium to Dark Yellow | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1986. Melogold fruits are oblate in form with a slightly flattened base. The rind is smooth and medium to dark yellow at maturity and thinner than Oroblanco for a similarly sized fruit. The large fruits typically average one pound in weight. The flesh is pale yellow in colour, seedless, tender, and juicy. The flavour is mild, sweet and reminiscent more of pomelo than of grapefruit. Melogold is early in its maturity and holds well on the tree. It is a sibling of Oroblanco grapefruit hybrid. |
GRAPEFRUIT: RAY RUBY
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow with Pinkish-Red blush | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Seedless red grapefruit that is slightly lighter than the Flame. The Ray Ruby holds its colour late into the season. |
GRAPEFRUIT: RIO RED
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow background with Pinkish blush | Harvest: June-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1984. A popular red-fleshed fruit. Medium sized and picked while still green. Flesh and juice have a beautiful red colour. Loves high heat. Fruit stores well on the tree and has best flavour in spring and summer. |
GRAPEFRUIT: STAR RUBY
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Red blushed/Yellow | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: When grown well, Star Ruby produces attractive red-blushed fruits with a smooth yellow rind. The flesh is very darkly-pigmented, juicy, and low-seeded or seedless. Season of maturity is mid to late-season, and the fruit holds well on the tree with some loss of flesh colour as the season progresses. 1977 |
KUMQUAT: EUSTIS LIMEQUAT
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green with some Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Eustis, Lakeland, and Tavares. Their importance is approximately in that order. All are characterized by fruits that closely resemble the West Indian lime in size, form, and composition and hence are reasonably acceptable substitutes. Eustis and Lakeland also closely approach the West Indian lime in colour. Tavares, however, exhibits some of the orange coloration characteristic of the kumquat and the pink coloration of the flower buds which occurs in the West Indian lime. All of the limequat are more cold-resistant than the lime parent but considerably less so than the kumquat. 1909 |
KUMQUAT: INDIO MANDARINQUAT
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Kumquat-Tangerine Hybrid. This hybrid came from a Nagami tree; the pollen parent is suspected to be Dancy mandarin. This cultivar produces profuse numbers of a very attractive, necked fruit which is light to medium orange coloured the shape of a Minneola tangelo, and about three times the size of Nagami kumquat fruits. It is probably too tart for most palates, but seems somewhat less tart than its Nagami parent. 1972 |
KUMQUAT: MEIWA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Compact | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow-orange colour at maturity | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Distinguished by their rounded versus oval shape and their sweetness. Often simply referred to as the sweet kumquat. Meiwa kumquats are entirely edible, rind, flesh and the occasional soft seeds. Meiwa kumquats have a thick, smooth oily peel with aromatic citron fragrances and sweet flavour. Flesh is not overly juicy but still very flavourful and bit tart. Only by eating both the skin and flesh will its perfect sweet-tart flavour balance be experienced. Harvest late winter through early spring. Meiwa in its native Chinese language translates to "golden orange". 1924 |
KUMQUAT: NAGAMI (CRC 3877)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Compact | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Does very well as a containerized tree as well as planted out. Fruit is sweet with a little bit of tart. |
KUMQUAT: NORDMAN NAGAMI
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Slow | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Does very well as a containerized tree as well as planted out. Fruit is sweet with a little bit of tart. Seedling of Nagami. This tree has fruit that are seedless. 1965 |
KUMQUAT: SUNQUAT
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Lemon and kumquat hybrid. Fruit is large (for kumquat) with tropical flavour. Fruit has nice yellow colour and is juicy. Tree is vigorous and productive, although thorny. Leaves are dark green and dense. |
KUMQUAT: TAVARES LIMEQUAT
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green with some Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Tavares exhibits some of the orange coloration characteristic of the kumquat and the pink colouration of the flower buds which occurs in the West Indian lime. All of the limequat are more cold-resistant than the lime parent but considerably less so than the kumquat. 2000 |
LEMON: ALLEN EUREKA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Also known as Abhayapuri lime. Of a spreading habit, the tree is moderately vigorous and smaller than its best-known rival 'Lisbon'. Less cold-resistant than other varieties. The fruit have a smooth medium thin rind, high juice content, high acid level, low number of seeds and good flavour. The trees are less thorny than many other lemon varieties, which makes picking easier. In its early years, Eureka is more productive than Lisbon and the harvest season remains longer also when fully grown, starting in late winter and continuing through spring till early summer. Intro 1877. |
LEMON: BABOON
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Intense Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: A Brazilian lemon with very intense yellow rind and flesh. The flavour is acidic with almost a hint of lime. Tree is vigorous with large green leaves. Both tree and fruit are beautiful. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvjEt-Z-710 |
LEMON: EUREKA (VARIEGATED)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Variegated | Harvest: Nov-May | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Variegated leaves and fruit, this variety is very ornamental. The pulp is pink and is juicy and nicely acidic. 1931 |
LEMON: IMPROVED MEYER
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Jan-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 1-2 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The original Meyer lemon introductions were symptom-less carriers of the tristeza virus, but the Improved Meyer lemon trees now available are virus-free. Considered ever-bearing & the blooms are very aromatic. It is a lemon and orange hybrid. It is very cold hardy. Fruit is round with a thin rind. Fruit is juicy and has a very nice flavour, with a low acidity. The aroma and flavour are distinctive and many find it especially desirable. Makes the best lemonade. 1971 |
LEMON: LIMONEIRA 8A
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Apr-Mar | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Limoneira 8A is one of the newest Lisbon selections. It is nowadays probably the most popular Lisbon type in California, Arizona and Argentina. Vigour, size and seediness are similar to Eureka but Limoneira 8A has longer blossoming periods and consequently longer periods of harvesting. Limoneira 8A has a high yield of fragrant rind oil. The name of the variety comes from The Limoneira Company's orchard 8-A in Olivelands where this variety was developed in the 1940's. The new variety proved more resistant to disease and yielded more high quality fruit that maintained a strong shelf life. |
LEMON: PONDEROSA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Jan-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1887. Considered ever-bearing & its fragrant blooms produce extra large fruit. Its small habit makes it a good variety to espalier with. New growth and flowers are purple tinged. Fruit is moderately juicy and fairly acidic. It is more cold sensitive and requires protection. Fruits mature throughout the year, ever-flowering. |
LEMON: SANTA TERESA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Oct-April | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: This Italian selection of the Femminello Ovale type is considered more resistant to the mal secco disease than any other clone. Fruit of medium size, short elliptical; rounded at base or very faintly necked; nipple low and blunt; seeds comparatively few and mostly rudimentary. Rind medium-thick; surface finely pitted with depressed oil glands, moderately smooth; tightly adherent. Segments about 10; axis of medium size and solid. Flesh tender, juicy, and very highly acid. Crop well distributed throughout year but mostly in late winter and spring. 1955 |
LIME: AUSTRALIAN GREEN FINGER LIME
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Dark Purple | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Australian Finger Lime, also called the "caviar lime", is a thorny tree with small tear drop leaves. The peel is high in oil and very shiny. The Finger Lime does not prefer direct sunlight. Fruits fall/winter. Contained in dark purple rind, the 3" long fruit are a multitude of juicy capsules bursting with intense, sweet-tart, lemon-lime flavour. Found in the wild in Australia. |
LIME: BEARSS
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green to Yellow | Harvest: June-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Known by many names, such as Tahitian lime, Persian lime, and Bearss lemon. Very juicy and has a high rind oil content. The leaves are a beautiful purple when first emerging, turning a nice dark green. 1895 |
LIME: KEYLIME (MEXICAN)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellowish Green when ripe | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: The colour varies from dark green when immature to a yellowish green when ripe. All green lime types turn fully yellow when mature and soon thereafter drop from the tree. To avoid confusion with Lemons, Limes are collected when still green. The Mexican lime is at its juiciest and best medium ripe, when still partly green. If it is allowed to mature on the tree it loses some of its typical flavour and becomes less juicy. This is the Key lime of food recipes. Both the juice and the rind oil of Mexican lime have an inimitable and unique lime flavour. |
LIME: MARRAKECH LIMONETTE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 5m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Light Yellowish-Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit medium-sized, depressed subglobose, commonly ribbed; base rounded or somewhat flattened. Rind thin, moderately pitted with sunken oil glands; somewhat bumpy; adherent. Segments about 11; axis medium in size and open. Flesh colour pale yellow; juicy; very sour and aromatic. Tree vigorous, large, upright-spreading and open, lightly spiny, and highly productive; leaves lemon-like, but more oval, less sharp-pointed, and usually somewhat cupped at upper end. Flowers purple in the bud and new growth purple-tinted. Flowers somewhat throughout the year but mainly in spring. Morocco, first described 1921. |
LIME: MAURITIUS (KAFFIR)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: This is a wonderful lime variety. The leaves are used in Thai, Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese cooking. They are very aromatic and shaped like a figure 8. Fruit is very bumpy, with little juice and is instrumental in making curry paste. The oil from the rind is also used in essential oils. |
LIME: PALESTINE SWEET LIME
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Pale Green to Orange-Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Also known as Indian sweet lime. The tree is medium-large with an irregular spreading form. The flowers are pure white, and the new growth is bright green. The fruits are small, round to slightly oblong, and have a thin, smooth, rind with prominent oil glands. The flesh is pale yellow, tender and juicy, with some seeds. The flavour is insipid due to the lack of acidity in the fruit but is appealing to some. 1924 |
LIME: PERSIAN (TAHITI)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit is medium in size and picked when still green. It has a very distinct lime smell. It is juicy and seedless. The tree has less thorns then the Keylime and is more cold tolerant. |
LIME: SWEET LIME
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 5m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: C. Limetta. Fruits are oval and green, ripening to yellow, with greenish pulp. The pith is white and about 5mm (0.20") thick. Despite the name sweet lime, the fruit is more similar to a greenish orange in appearance. As the name sweet lime suggests, the flavour is sweet and mild, but retains the essence of lime. The lime's taste changes rapidly in contact with air, and will turn bitter in a few minutes, but if drunk soon after being juiced, the taste is sweet. The flavour is a bit flatter than most citrus due to its lack of acidity. It can be compared to limeade and pomelo. |
LIME: THORNLESS MEXICAN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green with some Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Tree characters suggest that it may be a hybrid. Fruit compared with Mexican lime fruit- it is very similar, virtually indistinguishable. 1937 |
ORANGE: AUTUMN GOLD NAVEL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Jan-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Originally selected by Jack Pollock, Mourquong, NSW, Australia, circa 1950s; apparently a sport of Washington navel; also known as Pollock Late Navel. |
ORANGE: BARNFIELD NAVEL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Jan-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: It is apparently a sport of Washington navel; said to have good size and carry well on tree until June. NSW, Australia, circa 1985. |
ORANGE: BERGAMOT
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Slow | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Nov-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The tree is small to medium at maturity, thornless, and somewhat spreading in habit. The fruit is medium in size and variable in shape with obovoid most commonly occurring form. The yellow rind has a slightly rough texture and a distinctive rind oil. This oil is used commercially to flavour Earl Grey tea and as a component in perfumes, with Italy producing the majority of the world's supply. The fruits contain few seeds and are monoembryonic in nature. The flesh is pale yellow, acidic, and has a moderate juice content. Bergamot is thought to be a hybrid of sour orange and citron or lemon. Bergamot has been known in the Mediterranean for several centuries and described as early as 1708. |
ORANGE: BREAM TAROCCO
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Bream Tarocco is a medium-large to large blood orange variety with few to no seeds. Tarocco blood orange if one of the major blood orange varieties of the world. The distinctive colour is a natural mutation and is due to the presence of anthocyanin, the same plant compound that is responsible for the colour of pomegranates. The distinctive colour requires a chilly winter to develop properly. 1994 |
ORANGE: BUDD BLOOD
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Dec-Mar | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: One of the few blood oranges to develop the characteristic purple interior fruit colour in a Florida [humid] climate. Medium to large size fruit, with a strawberry-orange flavour. Fresh squeezed juice is blood red in colour. One of the earliest varieties of blood oranges to ripen. |
ORANGE: CALAMONDIN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange to Orange-Red | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Fruit very small, oblate to spherical; apex flattened or depressed. Rind colour orange to orange-red; very thin, smooth, and finely pitted, easily separable only at maturity; sweet/sour and edible. Segments about 9 and axis small and semi-hollow. Flesh orange-coloured; tender, juicy, and acid, used in marmalade's, jellies and drinks. Fruit holds on tree remarkably well. Tree of medium vigour, highly productive, upright and columnar, nearly thorn-less; leaves small, broadly oval, and mandarin-like. Strongly cold-resistant. Outstanding in containers. |
ORANGE: CALAMONDIN (VARIEGATED)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Jan-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Cold-resistant, the tree form is upright and columnar, and the leaves are small and dense giving the tree a fine textural appearance. The fruits are very small, round, and orange at full maturity. The orange flesh is acidic, juicy, and contains a few seeds. Calamondin trees flower and set fruit intermittently throughout the year, adding to the decorative appeal of these trees. A variegated form, with marbled leaves and faintly-striped fruit. Fruit smaller and lighter in colour when mature than fruit of Calamondin- fruit is variegated only when immature. Attractive light green & variegated foliage. 1914 |
ORANGE: CARA CARA RED NAVEL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Compact | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Nov-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1976. Red Navel fruit is typical for navel, easy peeling, sweet and juicy, with red colouring. Colour develops well in warm weather. Tree is compact and dense in growth habit. |
ORANGE: FUKUMOTO NAVEL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Reddish Orange | Harvest: Sept-Oct | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: This early maturing navel orange selection reaches legal maturity three to four weeks before Washington navel and is one of the earliest to reach colour-break. One of the most outstanding characteristics of this selection is the deep reddish rind colour of the fruit. Fukumoto trees tend to be smaller than other navel selections and appear to produce more chimeras than most navel orange selections. 1980's |
ORANGE: GLEN NAVEL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Fruit is large, seedless, easy peeling, juicy and flavourful. Very similar to the Washington Navel, although a little smaller and a little more heavier bearing. Tree is droopy with rounded top, medium in size and vigour. |
ORANGE: LANE LATE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1950. A late maturing navel orange, and first of a number of late maturing Australian navel oranges. The fruit is of similar size and shape, but it has a smoother peel and a slightly smaller navel. Seedless with a fine rich flavour. The fruit matures four to six week later than the Washington navel orange and stores on the tree for several months after reaching maturity before the quality deteriorates. |
ORANGE: MIDKNIGHT VALENCIA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Dark Orange | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Virtually seedless, medium-large, somewhat oblong fruit of excellent quality and medium-late maturity. Since it ripens earlier than Valencia and does not fruit in clusters to the same degree, it is probably best considered a variety. The tree is moderately vigorous and upright-growing, leaf shape is large and almost grapefruit-like. Bears similar yields to Valencias of same size (not age). At first sight does not appear to carry a good crop but this is the result of the large fruit size. In South Africa the Midknight produces fruit of excellent size (mainly 70-85 mm), good round shape (sometimes very slight shoulder) and very smooth rind texture. Excellent internal quality with high juice percentages and TSS levels. Seedless as Delta but has slightly tougher rag; can also be difficult to peel. Matures at same time as most Valencias. 1930's |
ORANGE: MORO BLOOD 3830
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Moro, in its turn, can have the most intense deep dark, almost purple-black flesh and juice of all blood oranges while it may not have even the slightest speck of pigmentation on the skin. Some say the colour of fully ripe Moro juice resembles the colour of the best wines from Burgundy. The skins of ripe full blood oranges can have as much anthocyanin as the skins of ripe dark grapes. 1975. |
ORANGE: OLINDA NUCELLAR VALENCIA (MULHOLLAND)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Dec-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Nucellar selection of 'Olinda' Valencia from Mulholland Ranch, Orange Cove, California. Original 'Olinda' was also a nucellar selections. 'Olinda' is one of the most popular selections of 'Valencia' used in California. The fruit is of a high quality and seedless. The peel is thin and the pulp is tender and very juicy. A late variety and keeps well on the tree. It can be picked until late spring, or even early summer. Up to 15 months to ripen. Fruit are of high quality but, in heat and without cool nights, the colour break does not always occur and the fruit remain greenish even when fully ripe. 2011 |
ORANGE: PARENT WASH
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Washington navel orange is also known as the Bahia for the Brazilian city from which it was imported into the United States in 1870. Although its origins are uncertain, it is believed to come from a bud sport found in a Selecta orange tree in the early 1800s. These exceptionally delicious, seedless, easy-peeling fruits quickly attracted the attention of citrus growers, and within a decade the "Washington" navel orange, as it came to be known, was the most widely planted. |
ORANGE: PINEAPPLE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Seedless type found in 1932. Fruit medium-sized, spherical to slightly obovate. Well-coloured. Rind medium-thick, surface finely pitted, and slightly pebbled. Flesh colour light orange; tender, juicy; flavour rich though sweet. Mid-season in maturity. Does not hold on tree. Tree moderately vigorous, medium-large, thorn-less, and highly productive. Named Pineapple because of its delicate fragrance. |
ORANGE: POWELL LATE NAVEL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Feb-June | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: A late maturing navel orange, and first of a number of late maturing Australian navel oranges. The fruit is of similar size and shape, but it has a smoother peel and a slightly smaller navel. Seedless with a fine rich flavour. The fruit matures four to six week later than the Washington navel orange and stores on the tree for several months after reaching maturity before the quality deteriorates. NSW, Australia, circa 1978. |
ORANGE: RUBY SWEET
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Fruit is medium-sized, globose to slightly oblong; seeds relatively few. Well-coloured, with reddish flush under favourable conditions. Rind medium-thick, finely pitted, and lightly pebbled. Flesh tender and juicy; flavour rich. An excellent early juice Orange. |
ORANGE: SANGUINELLI
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Oct-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The tree is small to medium in size, spineless, and very productive. Fruit said to be similar to Doblefina, but larger, seedier, and often asymmetrical; persistent style; blood colouration of both rind and flesh much more intense and constant. External red pigmentation rarely equalled by other blood oranges and excelled by none, making the fruit most attractive. Reported to hold on tree and to store well or better. Intensity of external pigmentation and purplish-red colour of the chalazal spot place this variety in the deep blood group. Variety originated as a limb-sport of Doblefina which came to light in Spain about 1950. |
ORANGE: SMITH RED
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Reddish Orange | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: A single seed from a deep red coloured fruit collected in Ventura County. Fruit somewhat over-mature looks like a blood orange, including an indentation at stylar end. The tree is a vigorous grower and carries good crops of fruit. The fruit is of good size and flavour and is very low-seeded. Flesh is heavily pigmented with anthocyanin. Although the fruit is mature in late winter, it holds well into late spring, well past the season for conventional blood oranges. Typically larger than Moro; somewhat variable shape; globose to ovoid with a depressed base, possibly due to juvenility; rind frequently heavily blushed, texture more pebbled than Moro or Tarocco; flesh deeply pigmented by anthocyanin, less tender than Tarocco; flavour very good, sweeter than Moro. 1998 |
ORANGE: TAROCCO
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Medium to large sized fruit that has few to no seeds. The flesh colours a nice blood colour and flavour is outstanding if picked late in January. One of the oldest and now rarest Italian light blood oranges. Tarocco is a medium-sized, vigorous, moderately productive tree. Tarocco fruit have a typical, slightly ovate shape. The fruit are bottom heavy and the shape tapers towards the top, which can have a pointed collar. The rind is medium thick but easily peelable. The lightly pigmented flesh is soft and finely textured. The flavour is rich and fragrant and has a good balance of acidity and sugar. Tarocco is considered one of the best blood orange varieties and some say it is one of the most delicious sweet orange varieties in general. |
ORANGE: WASHINGTON NAVEL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Medium Yellow | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: The large, exceptionally delicious, round, seedless fruits are rich in flavour and have a slightly pebbled orange rind that is easily peeled. Early in maturity, 10 months, at its best in the late autumn to winter months, but will hold on the tree for several months beyond maturity and stores well. The fruit is medium yellow and has a thick rind that comes off easily. The segments are seedless, loose, very juicy and very sweet. The sugar to acid balance is on the sugary side but has enough acids to make a pleasing citrus flavour. The texture is firm but melting. All in all one of the best oranges to eat fresh. |
PAPEDA: SUDACHI ICHANDRIN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Reddish Orange/Green at harvest | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Small fruit somewhat resembling Yuzu. Fruit is reddish-orange, leaves similar to Yuzu, resistance to citrus canker is good & gummosis resistance is good. Highly resistant to citrus root borer. Growth is slow, may have dwarfing characteristics. Trees are long-lived. Sudachi is an acid citrus; it bears small fruit (20-25 g) and is traditionally grown in Tokushima Prefecture (Japan). The fruit are harvested only at the green stage and are served in cut halves as a garnish. Sudachi trees tend to have a spreading habit of moderate vigour, but can be considered a small- to medium-sized tree, as 26-year-old trees on C-35 cit-range root-stocks are only approximately 8 feet tall. Thorns up to 5 mm in length are present in each leaf axil. Leaves are elliptical in shape, with a small-winged petiole. The tree canopy has dense branching. 1961 |
PAPEDA: YUZU ICHANDRIN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Yuzu is thought to be a hybrid between Ichang papeda and Satsuma mandarin. This is from Hubei Province, China, along the Yangtze River, where it was found in a field on a slope at an elevation of about 4,000 feet. Yuzu is used for cooking primarily when it is still green which occurs during September to October. A very spiny wild tree, Ht. 18 ft.; foliage dense, but individual leaves small; winged petioles quite minute; fruits fairly juicy; the size and shape of a tangerine; ripe rind of bright yellow colour. Imported prior to the 1900s. |
PUMMELO: CHANDLER
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 6m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow blushed Pink | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The fruit is large to very large and almost round with a thick yellow rind that is occasionally blushed with pink. The flesh varies in colour from light pink to very dark pink depending upon where it is grown. The flesh texture is somewhat ricey but still juicy for a pummelo. The fruits mature early and the flavour is pleasant and sweet. Chandler fruits are seedy when cross-pollinated by citrus fruits with viable pollen and seedless when grown in a solid block or in proximity to citrus fruits that are pollen sterile, such as navel oranges and Satsuma mandarin. 1959 |
PUMMELO: COCKTAIL
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 6m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Dark Yellow | Harvest: Jan-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: | Fertility: Self | Chill Hours Required: |
Description: The fruit can vary from the size of an orange to the size of a grapefruit. It has a thin, smooth, yellow rind. The flesh is yellow-orange in colour, and exceptionally juicy. The flavour is pleasantly sub-acid. Cocktail matures in early winter and the fruits hold well on the tree, puffing when they become very old, but not desiccating. Very unique flavour; you could love it or hate it. About 2/3 or this plus 1/3 Tarocco blood orange juice makes a fantastically flavoured juice drink. Cocktail is actually a hybrid of Siamese Sweet pummelo and Frua mandarin. The cross was made at Riverside, possibly in the 1950s. |
PUMMELO: HIRADO BUNTAN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 6m x 5m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Nov-Mar | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: A pink-fleshed Pummelo. It has a marvellous chewy texture and a flavour much like grapefruit, sweet with no acidity and without a hint of bitterness, it is out of this world! Segments hold well together, making it perfect for grilling or used in salads. |
PUMMELO: OROBLANCO HYB
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 6m x 5m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Tree grows vigorously to a large size with a somewhat spreading form. The fruit has a smooth greenish-yellow rind at maturity. Oroblanco fruits are oblate in form with a flattened base that has a pronounced indentation. The rind is thicker than the typical grapefruit and both the rind and membranes exhibit the bitterness characteristic of Oroblanco pummelo parentage. The flesh is very pale yellow and seedless. The flavour is mild and sweet. Early in its maturity and holds very well on the tree. The cross was made in 1958 and this Triploid selection was released in 1980. |
PUMMELO: SIAMESE SWEET
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Compact | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow staying Green with low light | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1930. Siamese Sweet is an acid-less, sweet-tasting Pummelo. Oblate to broad ovoid; pulp white, with large, crisp, non-juicy sacs easily separating from each other; mild-flavoured but faintly bitter. Tree is a dwarf with drooping branches and hairy new growth. |
PUMMELO: TAHITIAN
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 6m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Greenish Yellow | Harvest: Nov-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The origin of Tahitian is obscure but it is believed to have developed in Tahiti from seed from Borneo whence it was taken to Hawaii. The variety is of local interest and highly reputed for its excellent quality. Fruit is round with a flattened bottom and has a rind that is thinner than the typically thick Pummelo rind. The flesh is greenish, juicy, and sweet with a flavour some refer to as melon-like or even lime-like with a hint of Orange. 1950's |
PUMMELO: VALENTINE HYBRID
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Greenish Yellow | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Valentine reaches complete pigmentation in February when the solids:acid ratio is an average of 16:1. A ratio of this level produces an extremely sweet and delicious fruit. The rind is moderately easy to peel when fruits are mature. Valentine combines large size and low acidity from its pummelo parent, complex, floral taste from 'Dancy', and juicy red pulp from 'Ruby'. From selections of hybrid blood grapefruit-like citrus. 1950's |
SATSUMA: BROWN SELECT
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Compact | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Tree is slow growing with an open growth habit. Very cold tolerant. Fruit is medium sized with orange seedless flesh, rich in flavour and juicy. Fruit does not hold well to tree, but does store well. Clip to harvest. |
SATSUMA: DOBASHI BENI
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 0'C (32'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Deep orange-red coloured seedless fruit of good quality. This variety originated as a limb sport of Owari and noted about 1940. The fruit need to be picked as soon as they ripen, but they store well. Harvest them carefully as, if you pull the fruit directly from the tree, the skin may tear. Cut the fruits off from the stalk instead. |
SATSUMA: FROST OWARI
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: This variety is of ancient and unknown Japanese origin, presumably from the old province of Owari, whence the name. Fruit medium in size, medium-oblate to subglobose; sometimes slightly necked; seedless. Matures in advance of good coloration. Rind thin and leathery; surface smooth to slightly rough; easily separable. As maturity passes, the neck, if present, increases in size, the rind roughens, and its looseness increases, becoming baggy. Segments 10 to 12, with tough carpellary membranes; loosely separable; axis hollow. Flesh orange-coloured; tender and melting; flavour rich but sub acid. Fruit holds poorly on trees after maturity and must be picked promptly but stores well. Tree moderately vigorous but slow-growing; medium-small, spreading and drooping; very productive. 1916 |
SATSUMA: GOLD NUGGET
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Pale Orange | Harvest: Mar-May | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Late-maturing diploid mandarin hybrid that combines good fruit size, excellent productivity, outstanding storage characteristics both on and off the tree, extremely rich and sweet fruit flavour and the absence of seeds even in mixed plantings. Gold Nugget fruit are slightly flattened in shape, with little or no neck. The average fruit size is medium-large for a mandarin, with mean weight per fruit of 130 grams (4.6 oz). The rind texture is variable, depending on tree age, crop, but especially on the amount of pruning the tree has received. Alternate bearing is also reduced in regularly pruned trees. Fruit rinds from non-pruned trees with heavy crops can be somewhat coarse and bumpy although fairly easy to peel when fruit are mature. Rind oil is evident when peeling fresh fruit. Fruit splitting on the stylar end of the fruit can occur. The fruit is juicy, averaging 49% juice content. Flesh is deep orange in colour with a moderately fine texture. The taste is extremely sweet when mature (brix 15.0% in March, 17.5% in May) with a very rich flavour, considered by professional taste panels to be one of the very best flavoured citrus in the world. 1975 |
SATSUMA: MIHO WASE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Oct-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit somewhat oblate, but high in sugar, usually low in acid; and earlier in maturity. Tree also more vigorous. Markedly similar to Okitsu, but fruit from young trees has been slower to colour and in some location trees have been somewhat more vigorous. The Miho variety originated as a sister nucellar seedling to Okitsu but seems to have the slight differences mentioned above. It was registered in 1963. |
SATSUMA: NIPPON ORANGEQUAT
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Satsuma and Meiwa kumquat hybrid. Fruit is large and very flavourful. Matures early and holds well to the tree. |
SATSUMA: OKITSU WASE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Oct | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Okitsu-wase is a popular cultivar (2nd in acreage) of Satsuma in Japan. Okitsu Wase is better coloured than Kawano Wase. Flavour similar- sweet & ready to eat- but Okitsu Wase may be slightly better flavoured. Fruit somewhat more oblate than Miyagawa, but averages higher in sugar content and matures a week or so earlier. 1940 |
SATSUMA: SEEDLESS KISHU
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Oct | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: This species is the kishû mikan of Japan. The fruit is small, somewhat oblate, depressed at both ends, orange-coloured, and glossy. The thin, comparatively tight rind is easily peelable and fragrantly aromatic. The flesh is firm, meaty, and pleasantly sweet in flavour. Seeds are few. Small mandarin, sweet, peels & sections well. Mukakukishu is a completely seedless variety. Very old species of possibly Chinese origin. |
SATSUMA: YOSEMITE GOLD TM (TDE #4)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Orange | Harvest: Feb-Apr | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Patented (Plant Patent #16,289), Triploid mandarin hybrid that combines large fruit size, rich fruit flavour and the virtual absence of seeds even in mixed plantings. Yosemite Goldâ„¢ mandarin fruit are oblate (moderate flat) in shape, with little or no neck. The average fruit size is large for a mandarin and a mean weight per fruit of 175 grams (6 oz.), heavy for the fruit size. A smooth rind texture for fruit on trees with moderate to heavy crops. Rinds of fruit from trees with very light crops can be excessively rough. The rind is quite easy to peel when fruit are mature. Flesh is deep orange in colour with a medium texture. The fruit is moderately juicy averaging 42% juice content and are quite sweet (13% brix in February, 16% in April) with a very rich and very distinctive flavour. |
TANGELO: FERTIC TEMPLE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Jan-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: A Tangor, fruit is medium-large, juicy with rich, spicy flavour. Peel is adherent, but easily peeled. Tree has medium vigour and is a little sensitive to cold. |
TANGELO: MINNEOLA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Reddish-Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Minneola is a hybrid of Duncan grapefruit and Dancy tangerine, released in 1931. Its attractive colour, excellent flavour, and low seed content have made it popular. Minneola can readily be recognized by its typical 'neck'. Rind colour is deep reddish-orange; medium-thin, with smooth, finely pitted surface and moderately adherent skin. Flesh orange-coloured, tender, juicy, aromatic; flavour is rich and tart. Medium late in maturity. Minneola is also known as Honeybell. |
TANGELO: NOVA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: A Clementine and Orlando tangelo hybrid. Fruit is medium-large in size, easy peeling, good colour, pleasant flavour and juicy. Tree is dense with dark green leaves and somewhat upright in habit. Tree is cold tolerant. |
TANGELO: ORLANDO
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Tangelo Orlando has the same parents as Minneola but opposite characteristics. The fruit is round, tolerates frost better, the taste is sweeter and is early in maturity. Its good shipping quality and pleasant flavour make it a popular tangelo. |
TANGELO: OSCEOLA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Orange to almost Coral-Red | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1942. Fruit medium in size, medium-oblate in form; base flattened and sometimes slightly corrugated. Rind thin, leathery, moderately adherent but easily peel-able; surface smooth and glossy; colour deep orange to almost coral-red at maturity. Flesh colour deep orange; juicy; flavour rich and distinctive. Seeds are numerous. Medium-early in maturity. Tree virtually thorn-less, more upright than Clementine; dense foliage composed of medium-sized lanceolate leaves. |
TANGELO: PAGE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: A cross between Minneola tangelo and Clementine mandarin, U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1942 and released in 1963. Page was officially released as an orange, but technically speaking the variety is a tangelo hybrid since its parentage is three-fourths mandarin and one-fourth grapefruit. The fruit is medium in size, easily peeled, moderately pebbled and has numerous seeds. The flesh is a deep orange colour, tender and juicy, flavour rich and sweet. |
TANGELO: WEKIWA
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Jan-April | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in the 1930's. Wekiwa is a hybrid of Sampson Tangelo and a Grapefruit and therefore should be called a Tangelolo. It is delicious, very juicy sweet tropical flavour, of average size for mandarins. The tree is not vigorous but it is very productive and the fruit ripen in January. Under favourable conditions rind pink-blushed and flesh amber-pink. Early in maturity. |
TANGELO: WHITE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: This white tangelo is large in size, nearly seedless, ripens very early, is sweet and juicy. |
TANGERINE: DANCY
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Orange-Red to Red | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1867. Known as the Christmas Tangerine. Fruit are oblate to pear-shaped and of medium size. Peel is deep orange-red to red, smooth, glossy at first but lumpy and fluted later, thin, leathery and tough. Pulp dark-orange, of fine quality, richly flavoured. Tree is vigorous, upright and thorn-less. Matures in late autumn and winter. |
TANGERINE: LEE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Yellowish-Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Fruit is medium in size, slightly oblate to subglobose; basal area slightly raised and furrowed. Rind thin, leathery, moderately adherent but readily peel-able; surface smooth and glossy; colour deep yellowish-orange at maturity. Flesh colour orange; tender and melting; juice abundant; flavour rich and sweet. Seeds are numerous. Medium-early in maturity. Tree nearly thorn-less; dense foliage of medium-sized, lanceolate leaves. |
TANGERINE: PIXIE
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow-Orange | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Pixie is the result of an open pollination of Kincy (King X Dancy) that took place in 1927 and was eventually released in 1965. The tree is a vigorous upright grower. The fruit is usually globose to slightly oblate, and sometimes has a neck. The rind is yellow-orange with a slightly pebbled texture and is easy to peel. The flesh is seedless, orange coloured, and juicy. The flavour is mild and sweet. Pixie matures in late winter and holds exceptionally late on the tree; the fruit is known to hold well into summer. |
TANGERINE: ROBINSON
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Oct-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit is medium-large, easy peeling, with deep yellow-orange flesh. It is juicy, with rich and sweet flavour. It is a heavy producer which can result in limb breakage. Thinning may be required. The tree is upright spreading and can have limb and twig die-back in early years. It is one of the more cold hardy varieties. Thorn-less. |
TANGERINE: SHASTA GOLD TM (TDE #2)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Reddish-Orange | Harvest: Feb-Mar | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Shasta Goldâ„¢ (TDE2) is a hybrid with Temple tangor, and Dancy and Encore mandarins. Patented (Plant Patent #15,461) Triploid mandarin hybrid that combines large fruit size, rich fruit flavour and the virtual absence of seeds even in mixed plantings. Shasta Gold mandarin fruit are moderately flat in shape, with little or no neck. The average fruit size is large for a mandarin (size 15 by industry packing standards) with a mean width of 75 mm (2.95 in.) and a height of 59 mm (2.32 in.), weight per fruit of 185 grams (6.5 oz), heavy for the fruit size. Rind texture generally smooth on fruit from trees with moderate to heavy crops. The rind of fruit from trees with very light crops can be excessively rough. The rind is fairly easy to peel when fruit are mature. Flesh is deep orange in colour with a moderately fine texture. The fruit is juicy averaging 49% juice content and are very sweet when mature (13% brix in February, 16% in April) with a very rich, distinctive flavour. 1987 |
TANGERINE: TAHOE GOLD TM (TDE #3)
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Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Reddish-Orange | Harvest: Jan-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Patented (Plant patent #15,703) mandarin hybrid that combines large fruit size, rich fruit flavour and the virtual absence of seeds even in mixed plantings. Fruit are slightly flattened in shape with a small neck. The average fruit size is medium-large for a mandarin, mean weight per fruit of 135 grams (4.75 oz.), heavy for the fruit size. The rind texture is variable, depending on the tree age and crop. Rind texture is smooth to slightly pitted on fruit from older trees with moderate to heavy crops. The rind of the fruit from trees with very light crops can be excessively rough. The rind is of medium thickness and moderately easy to peel when fruit are mature. Flesh is deep orange in colour, with a fine texture. The fruit is typically very juicy averaging 48% juice content and are quite sweet (13.5% brix in February, 15.5% in March) with a rich, distinctive flavour. Tahoe Goldâ„¢ (TDE3) is a hybrid with Temple tangor, and Dancy and Encore mandarins. 1987 |
CLEMENTINE: NULES
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Reddish-Orange | Harvest: Nov-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1953. Fruit is small-medium in size, reddish-orange in colour, juicy, sweet and aromatic. Tree is highly cold tolerant. |
GRAPEFRUIT: MARSH
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow staying Green with low light heat | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Seedless white grapefruit that is very juicy with good flavour. Fruit holds well to the tree and ships and stores well. It was the first seedless grapefruit variety used in Florida. |
GRAPEFRUIT: NEW ZEALAND (POORMAN ORANGE)
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Has a bark condition resembling psoriasis. This condition is apparently characteristic of the New Zealand 'grapefruit', The earliest description of record, given in a New South Wales nursery catalogue of 1820, indicates that the original introduction might have been a Shaddock (pummelo); hence, the possibility exists that Poorman is of Australian origin. A seedy, orange-fleshed fruit that matures slightly earlier than grapefruit because of its lower acidity. The fruit and tree are very similar to grapefruit, but it is probably a pummelo hybrid or a natural tangelo. This is also suggested by the monoembryony of the seeds (they will not grow true to type). The fruit has some resemblance to the Attani of India and the Natsudaidai and Asahikun of Japan. Orange flesh, sweet-tart; seedy; coarse rind, prominent pores. |
GRAPEFRUIT: ROYAL
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1892. This variety has a relatively small, nearly round, orange-yellow, seedy fruit of sweet flavour that lacks the typical grapefruit bitterness and aroma and is suggestive of sweet orange. |
GRAPEFRUIT: RUBY RED
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow with Pinkish-Red blush | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1929. Dark pink seedless grapefruit that is juicy and flavourful. Peel has a slight pink blush. Flesh colour will fade somewhat later in the season. Tree is large and productive. |
KUMQUAT: CENT. VAR. NAGAMI
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Compact | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Variegated | Harvest: June-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Cent. Variegated Nagami has a very showy leaf, small and variegated. Fruit is also variegated. Does very well as a containerized tree. Fruit is sweet with a little bit of tart. |
KUMQUAT: LAKELAND LIMEQUAT
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green with some Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Persian Lime and Kumquat hybrid. Fruit tastes like the lime but is smaller and more cold hardy. It has an upright growth and very attractive. Does well in containers. |
KUMQUAT: NIPPON ORANGEQUAT
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Slow | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Oct | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Apparently originally produced in Washington DC, it apparently went to Florida before being introduced, as records on file state that it was received in 1935. Fruit small, but larger than kumquat, broadly oval to obovate; rind relatively thick and spongy; flavour mild and pulp acid. Matures early but holds well on tree for several months. Foliage dark green. Fruit makes excellent marmalade, the Orangequat has not become popular and remains a collection item. |
KUMQUAT: NORDMANN SEEDLESS
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Slow | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red when sun exposed | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Does very well as a containerized tree as well as planted out. Fruit is sweet with a little bit of tart. Seedling of Nagami. This tree has fruit that are seedless. 1965 |
LEMON: FOOTHILL
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Dec-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Apparently a selection of 'Villafranca'. Characteristics intermediate between 'Lisbon' and 'Eureka' lemons: "Fruit indistinguishable from Eureka, but seasonal distribution of crop more like Lisbon, mainly in winter. Tree similar to Lisbon, but more open and upright in growth habit, less thorny, and not as densely foliated." 1963 |
LEMON: HARVEY
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Mar | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1948. Having survived the disastrous deep freezes in Florida during the '60's and '70's, this variety is known to withstand cold weather. Typical lemon shape and tart, juicy true lemon flavour. |
LEMON: LAPITHIOTIKI
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green-Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: A good quality lemon which is mal secco resistant. Crown compact or dense, not weeping, prickles absent or not persistent. Leaflets one, margin bluntly toothed. Scent of crushed leaflets sweetly orange-like, spicy, or peppery. Fruit as broad as long or longer than broad; rind texture slightly rough; firmness leathery; navel absent; flesh yellow; taste sour. Cyprus 1989 |
LEMON: LIMONERO FINO 49
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 5m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit spherical to oval; nipple comparatively small and sharp-pointed; moderately seedy. High juice and acid content. Crop comes mainly in winter. Tree exceptionally vigorous, attaining large size, very thorny, and highly productive. Foliage density and leaf size greater than Berna. Spanish 1967. |
LEMON: LISBON
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Feb-May | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit is very juicy and acidic. The leaves are dense and tree is very vigorous. This Lisbon is more cold tolerant than the Eureka and is more productive. It is one of the major varieties in California. |
LEMON: MEYER
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Jan-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 1-2 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1908. Considered ever-bearing & the blooms are very aromatic. It is a lemon and orange hybrid. It is very cold hardy. Fruit is round with a thin rind. Fruit is juicy and has a very nice flavour, with a low acidity. The aroma and flavour are distinctive and many find it especially desirable. Makes the best lemonade. |
LEMON: OLD LINE EUREKA
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The fruit have a smooth medium thin rind, high juice content, high acid level, low number of seeds and good flavour. The trees are less thorny than many other lemon varieties, which makes picking easier. In its early years, Eureka is more productive than Lisbon and the harvest season remains longer also when fully grown, starting in late winter and continuing through spring till early summer. Original line of Eureka Lemon, 1858. |
LEMON: POMONA SWEET
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 0'C (32'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Similar to Eureka lemon; fruit rounded with a small nipple; smaller than normal Eureka; good fruit quality with flavour that is sweet and low in acid; juicy, easy to peel; few to no seeds when grown in isolation; not excessively thorny; very hardy (survived 1990 freeze of several hours at 16'F). |
LEMON: SANBOKAN SWEET
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow | Harvest: Nov-Mar | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit tastes like sweet lemonade! Sanbokan is a little known lemon. Fruit peels easily like a tangerine, the flesh is tender and sweet like a mix of sweet orange and grapefruit, delicious! Sanbokan lemon tree has some cold tolerance. |
LEMON: VOLKAMER
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Dark Yellow | Harvest: Dec-April | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: "Volkamer" or "Volckamer". This is a moderately large, oval, seedy lemon, not as elongate as most lemons and has no nose. Flavour lemon-like. Rind colour dark yellow to almost orange-yellow. The main crop is winter and early spring. Sicily 1955. |
LIME: AUSTRALIAN RED FINGER LIME
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Dark Red | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Australian Finger Lime, also called the "caviar lime", is a thorny tree with small tear drop leaves. The peel is high in oil and very shiny. The Finger Lime does not prefer direct sunlight. Fruits fall/winter. Contained in dark red rind, the 3" long fruit are a multitude of juicy capsules bursting with intense, sweet-tart, lemon-lime flavour. |
LIME: PERSIAN SPB-7
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green with some Yellow | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: This selection of Persian-type lime is said to be free of the genetic disorder wood pocket, which is found in many of the large-fruited acid limes. After screening more than 100,000 trees, 10 trees were identified that were apparently free of wood pocket. The current selection (SPB-7) was entered into the program in 1954 and never showed wood pocket symptoms. The current selection was entered into the foundation program about 1961. Fruit is medium in size and picked when still green. It has a very distinct lime smell. It is juicy and seedless. The tree has less thorns then the Keylime and is more cold tolerant. |
LIME: RANGPUR
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Reddish Orange | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Tart reddish orange fruit is used like lime, although it is a sour Mandarin from India. The overlap of prolific fruit and purple tinged blooms make this a wonderful ornamental tree. Popular in mixed drinks or simply sliced for ice tea. |
LIME: RED LIME
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Red | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Red limes have the flavour of a lime but with a red-orange peel as they ripen. They are ever-bearing with a sweet fragrance when cut open. A tropical species, similar in size and shape to the green Lime. Its outer skin is a red colour and it has dark coloured flesh. Red Lime can be grown in a sheltered pot on a patio or inside a conservatory. It is believed to have been made by crossing a lemon with a mandarin plant. |
LIME: TAHITI
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Pale Lemon Yellow | Harvest: Oct-Apr | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The origin of the Tahiti or Persian lime is unknown, and its history is obscure. The name arises from the fact that this type of lime was introduced from Tahiti sometime during 1850 to 1880. As the Persian lime, it was introduced into Australia as early as 1824, possibly from Brazil. The origin of the name Persian is unknown, however, although it seems likely that this fruit came to the Mediterranean area via Persia as did the citron. Fruit medium-small (like small lemon), oval, faintly furrowed. Seeds are lacking. Rind thin; surface smooth, tightly adherent. Segments about 10; axis small and usually solid. Flesh colour pale greenish-yellow; tender, juicy; very acid and with true lime flavour. Somewhat everbearing, mainly in winter. Vigorous, broad-spreading, drooping, medium to medium-large, nearly thornless; foliage dense green. Flower buds and flowers medium in size and flowering occurs throughout year, mainly in spring. Purple coloration usually faint and evanescent in both flowers and shoots. Fully as cold-resistant as the true lemons. |
ORANGE: DREAM NAVEL
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange-Red | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1939. Smallest of the navels, but with more colour quality and flavour. The fruit is medium sized, well coloured, rich flavour, juicy, seedless and sweet. The fruit holds well to the tree without losing its internal quality. |
ORANGE: EARLY GOLD
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow-Orange | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Medium sized fruit, with excellent colour and sweet flavour with few or no seeds. Peel is thin and adherent. Tree is vigorous and very productive. One of the best coloured of the early varieties. |
ORANGE: FROST WASHINGTON NAVEL
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Medium Yellow | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: The first, and currently very much the most important, nucellar budline of the Washington navel. It was originated from a controlled cross made in 1916 but not released until 1952. It is now more widely planted in California, Arizona, and Morocco than any other clonal selection of Washington. |
ORANGE: HAMLIN
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Medium-small fruit with nice coloured flesh, very juicy, few to no seeds, thin rind. Tree is moderately vigorous, cold tolerant and very productive. |
ORANGE: KINNOW
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1935. Medium in size. Flesh is a deep yellow orange, rich in flavour, very aromatic and juicy. The peel is thin, and not as easy peeling as some mandarins, but not hard to peel. Holds well on the tree, tendency to alternate bear. The tree is vigorous with dark leaves and is fairly cold tolerant. |
ORANGE: MIDSWEET
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Jan-Mar | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Medium sized fruit that is juicy, good colour, excellent flavour. Holds well to the tree. Tree is cold tolerant and less susceptible to preharvest fruit drop than Pineapple. |
ORANGE: ORTANIQUE
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Bright Yellowish-Orange | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Fruit is large in size, that is bright yellowish-orange at maturity. Peel is thin, finely pitted, adherent, but peelable. Flesh is juicy, with a rich and distinctive flavour. It is a late mid-season and holds well to the tree without loosing its internal quality. The tree is vigorous with a dense growth pattern. |
ORANGE: SEVILLE SOUR ORANGE
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 5m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 0'C (32'F) |
Fruit Colour: Dark Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: This variety of sour orange is traditionally used to make orange marmalade. The tree is attractive, large, vigorous, and cold tolerant. The fruit is medium-large, round, with a depressed apex, and has pebbled dark orange rind. Seville fruits mature in winter and are seedy, bitter, and acidic. Commercially, the fruits are valued for their oil content and juice. The fragrant flowers are used in China to flavour tea, and in Europe the flowers are the source of oil of neroli, used in perfume manufacture. 1950's |
ORANGE: SHIRANUI
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Rich Orange Yellow | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Easy peeling, sweet and seedless. The fruit is medium-large in size, with firm flesh. It has a distinctive neck and the peel is a rich orange yellow colour. Flavour is a rich mandarin orange honey. |
ORANGE: SMITH RED VALENCIA
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Reddish Orange | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: A single seed from a deep red coloured fruit collected in Ventura County. Fruit somewhat over-mature looks like a blood orange, including an indentation at stylar end. The tree is a vigorous grower and carries good crops of fruit. The fruit is of good size and flavour and is very low-seeded. Flesh is heavily pigmented with anthocyanin. Although the fruit is mature in late winter, it holds well into late spring, well past the season for conventional blood oranges. Typically larger than Moro; somewhat variable shape; globose to ovoid with a depressed base, possibly due to juvenility; rind frequently heavily blushed, texture more pebbled than Moro or Tarocco; flesh deeply pigmented by anthocyanin, less tender than Tarocco; flavour very good, sweeter than Moro. 1998 |
ORANGE: SOUR
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow-Orange | Harvest: July-Aug | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Sour Orange is know for its juice. It is used for marinating meats and making mojo sauce, Marmalade. Some prefer it in ice tea rather than lemon. The tree is cold hardy and a prolific bearer. |
ORANGE: TAROCCO #7
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 5m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Reddish-Orange | Harvest: Sept-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: This seedling line was chosen for propagation because of its outstanding performance on fruit production, vigour, fruit size, and its deep red colour in the flesh and rind. The quality of the fruit is also excellent. The distinctive colour requires a chilly winter to develop properly. Tarocco #7 is one of the most delicious blood orange varieties, although the rind of this blood orange gets very little to no coloration at all. 1967 |
ORANGE: UGLI
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Green/Yellow | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Don't let its unassuming exterior fool you, because this mottled green citrus is truly delectable. Its size rivals that of a grapefruit, with a milder, much sweeter taste, fibrous sections inside and a slight protrusion at the base that looks like an "outie" navel. The Ugli fruit, however, was purportedly discovered in a Jamaican pasture in 1917. Now believed to be a natural cross between a mandarin orange and a grapefruit. |
ORANGE: VALENCIA
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Dec-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Originally from either Spain or Portugal, to Florida in 1870. Grows well, is easy to cultivate and very productive. The fruit is of a high quality and seedless (0-6 seeds). The peel is thin and the pulp is tender and very juicy. A late variety and keeps well on the tree. It can be picked until late spring, or even early summer. Up to 15 months to ripen. Fruit are of high quality but, in heat and without cool nights, the colour break does not occur and the fruit remain greenish even when fully ripe. |
PUMMELO: RED SHADDOCK
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 6m x 5m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow-Orange | Harvest: Nov-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Large fruit with dark red flesh. Smooth texture, very tender and juicy. Flavour is excellent with high sugar content. Tree is willowy with large leaves. |
SATSUMA: FAIRCHILDLS
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Dec-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Fruit are richly flavoured and sweet when mature (14% brix) with a fairly smooth, orange rind. Fruit are slightly more elongated than normal 'Fairchild'. The distinctive trait of 'FairchildLS' is that it is considered to be low seeded (2.4 seeds per fruit) despite any cross-pollination. 'FairchildLS' fruit are deeply oblate in shape with no neck. The fruit is medium sized for a mandarin, averaging 64 mm (2.5 in.) in diameter and 56 mm (2.2 in.) in height. The rind is relatively thin and at maturity is considered moderately easy to peel. The fruit interior has fine flesh texture with 10-11 segments. The fruit are juicy averaging 47% juice with an average weight of 110g. 'FairchildLS' matures in winter and holds its fruit quality characteristics through late March. Fruit from trees on C-35 citrange rootstocks average 11.2-12.8% soluble solids and 0.94-1.23% acid in January increasing to 13.1-14.0% soluble solids with decreasing acid of 0.78-1.01% by mid-March. Fruit production for 'FairchildLS' begins in the third year after planting. Four-year-old trees averaged 62-88 lb, and five year old trees averaged 92-108 lbs. 2007 |
SATSUMA: IWASAKI
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 10'C (50'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 5'C (41'F) |
Fruit Colour: Yellow-Orange | Harvest: Sept-Oct | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Not much information is apparently available about this genotype. Iwasaki is very early (early to mid-September in Spain). It has good taste and fruit quality (size, colour). Unlike some other Satsumas, it is vigorous. It is becoming the most widely planted Satsuma in Spain. 2009 |
SATSUMA: KIMBROUGH
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 0'C (32'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 10'C (50'F) |
Description: Kimbrough trees are large, strong, spreading and very productive. The fruit is generally large and stores well on the tree after maturity. It has fewer seeds than other varieties of Satsuma. Easy peeling and excellent eating quality with superb flavour. Kimbrough is reported to be hardy down to -11'C (12'F) and is known to have survived single digit temperatures for a few hours. |
SATSUMA: XIE SHAN
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Aug - late Sept | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Xie Shan is the Chinese translation of the original Japanese name 'Wakiyama'. It has a unique flavour and taste that differs from other Satsumas. With harvesting starting by mid-September Xie Shan together with 'Miyagawa' forms a new group of easy-peeling, completely seedless, super-early satsumas. 1992 |
TANGELO: MINNEOLA (VARIEGATED)
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Reddish-Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 3-4 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1931. Duncan Grapefruit & Dancy Tangerine Hyb. Its attractive colour, excellent flavour, and low seed content have made it popular. Minneola can readily be recognized by its typical 'neck'. Rind colour is deep reddish-orange; medium-thin, with smooth, finely pitted surface and moderately adherent skin. Flesh orange-coloured, tender, juicy, aromatic; flavour is rich and tart. Medium late in maturity. Minneola is also known as Honeybell. |
TANGELO: TEMPLE
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Jan-Feb | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Temple is a natural tangor that was discovered in 1896 in Jamaica. It is also called the Temple orange or the Royal mandarin. Tree of medium vigor, spreading and bushy, somewhat thorny; leaves medium-sized and mandarin-like; productive. More cold-sensitive than any of the mandarins or oranges. Fruit is medium-large, juicy with rich, spicy flavour. Peel is adherent, but easily peeled. |
TANGERINE: FREMONT
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 2m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: A Clementine and Ponkan hybrid. It is easy peeling, sweet and juicy. Fruit is medium in size with bright orange-red flesh. Fruit holds well to tree without loosing quality. |
TANGERINE: FROST DANCY
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Deep Orange-Red to Red | Harvest: Oct-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1916. Known as the Christmas Tangerine. Fruit are oblate to pear-shaped and of medium size. Peel is deep orange-red to red, smooth, glossy at first but lumpy and fluted later, thin, leathery and tough. Pulp dark-orange, of fine quality, richly flavoured. Tree is vigorous, upright and thorn-less. Matures in late autumn and winter. |
TANGERINE: MURCOTT
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 3m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Sept-Nov | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Introduced in 1922. Because this fruit has such a thin peel, it is clipped from the tree rather than pulled. The glossy smooth rind clings to the pulp, but is still easily peeled when fresh. The tender flesh has twelve orange-coloured segments with numerous seeds, but there is an abundance of reddish-orange juice with a mango-like sweetness. Also called Florida Honey. Medium late, holds average on tree. Medium vigour, upright with long willowy branches. |
TANGERINE: PONKAN
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Vigorous | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 4m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Dec-Jan | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: Also called the Chinese Honey, it has large fruit with orange colour flesh, juicy, with mild pleasant flavour. Tree is vigorous with upright growth habit. 1805 |
TANGERINE: SUNBURST
Sunlight: Full | Growth Rate: Medium | Drought Tolerance: No |
Full Size (WxH): 4m x 3m | Ideal Min Temp: 15'C (59'F) | Min Temp Tolerated: 10'C (50'F) |
Fruit Colour: Orange | Harvest: Nov-Dec | Year(s) to bear fruit: 2-3 |
Prop. Method: Grafted | Fertility: Self, better with second variety | Chill Hours Required: 100 hrs below 15'C (60'F) |
Description: A Robinson and Osceola hybrid. Fruit is medium in size, juicy and sweet with dark orange flesh. Peel is thin and brittle, but not hard to peel. |