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Varieties Orlando. The early maturing Orlando tangelo is noted for its rich juiciness, mild and sweet flavor, large size, distinct zesty smell, and flat-round shape without a characteristic knob.
The Jamaican tangelo, also known by proprietary names ugli / ˈʌɡli / fruit, uglifruit, and uniq fruit, is a citrus fruit that arose on the island of Jamaica through the natural hybridization of a tangerine or orange with a grapefruit (or pomelo ), and is thus a tangelo. [1] The original tree is believed to have been a hybrid formed from ...
The tangelo is a hybrid between pomelo or grapefruit and any tangerine; ... high-quality varieties are propagated by air-layering or by budding onto favored ...
Murcott (fruit) The Murcott (marketed as Honey Tangerine) is a tangor, or mandarin – sweet orange hybrid. [1] [2] [3] The Murcott arose out of citrus pioneer Walter Tennyson Swingle 's attempts to produce novel citrus hybrids. Its seed parent has been identified as the King tangelo; the pollen parent remains to be identified. [4]
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae ( / ruːˈteɪsiˌaɪ / ). Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including crops such as oranges, mandarins, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and limes. The genus Citrus is native to South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, and Australia.
Varieties of the color orange may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades , a tint being an orange or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black.
Tangerine. The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color, that is considered either a variety of Citrus reticulata, the mandarin orange, or a closely related species, under the name Citrus tangerina, [1] [2] [3] or yet as a hybrid ( Citrus × tangerina) of mandarin orange varieties, with some pomelo contribution.
Citrus taxonomy refers to the botanical classification of the species, varieties, cultivars, and graft hybrids within the genus Citrus and related genera, found in cultivation and in the wild. Citrus taxonomy is complex and controversial. [1] [2] Cultivated citrus are derived from various citrus species found in the wild.