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The Minneola tangelo (also known as the Honeybell) is a cross between a Duncan grapefruit and a Dancy tangerine and was released in 1931 by the USDA Horticultural Research Station in Orlando. It is named after Minneola, Florida. Most Minneola tangelos are characterized by a stem-end neck, which tends to make the fruit appear bell-shaped.
Further crosses have produced the tangelo (1905), the Minneola tangelo (1931), and the oroblanco (1984). Its true origins were not determined until the 1940s, at which point its official name was altered to Citrus × paradisi , the × identifying it as a hybrid. [ 39 ]
Minneola may refer to: a variety of tangelo; Places in the United States. Minneola, former name of Alleene, Arkansas; Minneola, Florida;
Why does Minneola redirect to Tangelo, yet the Minneola is not even mentioned once in the article? Badagnani 04:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC) I'm confused -- is a Minneola a mix of a "'Bowen' grapefruit and 'Dancy' tangerine" or "an Ardean and a Lynn"? What are Ardeans and Lynns? 12:45a EST 28 Febrary 2007 I agree that there is still confusion here.
Lacking seeds, and thus the capacity to propagate via the fruit, the plants are generally propagated vegetatively from cuttings, by grafting, or in the case of bananas, from "pups" . In such cases, the resulting plants are genetically identical clones. By contrast, seedless watermelons are grown from seeds.
The seeds of the pomelo are monoembryonic, producing seedlings with genes from both parents, but they are usually similar to the tree they grow from and therefore in Asia, pomelos are typically grown from seed. [4] Seeds can be stored for 80 days at a temperature of 5 °C (41 °F) with moderate relative humidity. [4]
The Dancy tangerine (zipper-skin tangerine, kid-glove orange) is one of the oldest and formerly most popular American citrus varieties, but is now rarely sold. [3] The Dancy originated in 1867, as a seedling grown by Colonel Francis L. Dancy. [1] [4] It was called tangerine because its parent, the Moragne tangerine, was believed to come from ...
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]