Below this email note is the link and a section from the Citrus Industry Volume I Chapter 4 about mandarins. The word tangerine is often used interchangeably with the word mandarin but actually the term tangerine was coined for brightly colored sweet mandarins that were originally shipped out of the port of Tangiers Morocco to Florida in the late 1800s and the term stuck. Murcotts and Tango mandarins after the holidays. If you have heard of “Cuties” they are a marketing name used to pack Clementine mandarins before Christmas generally and W. There are actually many selections of Clementine mandarins and some are more commercial than others with Clemenules Clementine being the most commercially grown of the Clementine mandarins.
Mandarins refer to a group of cultivars and includes Clementine and Satsuma and many other mandarins. In addition the Citrus Variety Collection has a website ( ) that I thought you might like to know about since you are asking questions about Clementines and Mandarins. I also conduct research on new cultivars of citrus that are imported into California and the US. I am the curator of one of the most diverse collections of Citrus and Citrus relatives here at the University of California – Riverside. Mary Lu Arpaia asked me to provide you with some information about this topic. Might not be totally true, but they're usually pretty honest unless they're messing with me.My name is Tracy Kahn, and Dr. My boss is a former fruit farmer and he never shut up about it haha, also my neighbour and I share 6 now defunct some fruit trees, including a Satsuma plum, on our property line, and half a dozen olive trees as well )Įdit: further info - the Satsuma is part of the hybrid Amber Jewel plum (red skin/pale flesh, also my personal favorite) and the Black Beauty (Dark Purple skin/black purple flesh) and was Askaig part of hybridisation of pages and plums to make the dark fleshed nectarine, according to people I know who are professional for growers. Source: I live in a major fruit production town in Western Australia where many of the modern hybrids originated (in apples, stone fruit and citrus.
Most remaining trees are domestic, these days. It has been pretty much hybridised out of production now, but 20 years ago it was a prolific commercial variety of red skinned, dark pulp plum. Satsuma is also the name of a plum variety grown in Australia, I don't know it's origin though.
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