Yosemite Mandarin: January/April fruits, seedless variety, easy to peel, with dark orange coloring, Tahoe Mandarin: January/February fruits, seedless variety, easy to peel, sweet, juicy with a unique flavor, deep red-orange coloring on the skin peel and flesh. Tree has finer foliage and upright habit.Ĭlementine Mandarin (Algerian): spring-ripening fruit, very heat tolerant tree. Owari Satsuma Mandarin: December/January fruit, seedless and easy to peel, hardiest of all mandarins (28☏), slower growing tree.ĭancy Tangerine: winter fruiting with some seeds, easy to peel. Murcott Mandarin without seeds, deep orange colored fruit are smooth skinned, fruit holds well on the tree through April. Tango Mandarin: January - March fruit, this Clementine type is basically W.

Gold Nugget Mandarin: spring/summer fruit, fruit is seedless, richly flavored and easy to peel, remarkably frost tolerant trees begin bearing in March, unlike many other mandarins, fruit holds well on the tree through summer, distinct bumpy peel holds delectable, sweet fruit that ripens in spring. The plant called “hardy mandarin” or satsuma is a different, very cold hardy species (Citrus unshiu). They are usually easier to peel and to split into segments.

They are generally frost tender plants and are smaller and oblate, unlike the spherical common oranges. Most of the well-known mandarins are of the species Citrus reticulata.

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