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Tangerines were first grown and cultivated as a distinct crop in the Americas by a Major Atway in Palatka, Florida. [13] Atway was said to have imported them from Morocco (more specifically its third-largest city Tangier), which was the origin of the name. Major Atway sold his groves to N. H. Moragne in 1843, giving the Moragne tangerine the ...
Tangerines (Citrus tangerina) [6] is a grouping used for several distinct mandarin hybrids. Those sold in the US as tangerines have usually been Dancy, Sunburst or Murcott (Honey) cultivars. Some tangerine × grapefruit hybrids are legally sold as tangerines in the US. [7] [8]
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 Morocco. [5] It has an intense, medium-sweet flavour, and its juice is more strongly-flavoured than orange juice.
In 2022, world production of mandarin oranges (combined with tangerines, clementines, and satsumas in reporting to FAOSTAT) was 44.2 million tonnes, led by China with 61% of the global total. [18] Spain produced 1.8 million tonnes in 2022, with Turkey , Egypt , and Morocco as other significant producers.
After the Crimean War (1853–56), the most important innovation in local agriculture was the rapid expansion of citrus cultivation. [3] Foremost among the varieties cultivated was the Jaffa (Shamouti) orange, and mention of it being exported to Europe first appears in British consular reports in the 1850s.
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, world production of all citrus fruits in 2016 was 124 million tonnes, with about half of this production as oranges. [36] At US $15.2 billion equivalent in 2018, citrus trade [ 37 ] makes up nearly half of the world fruit trade, which was US$32.1 billion that year. [ 38 ]
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Origin Algeria A clementine ( Citrus × clementina ) is a tangor , a citrus fruit hybrid between a willowleaf mandarin orange ( C. × deliciosa ) and a sweet orange ( C. × sinensis ), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] named in honor of Clément Rodier , a French missionary who first discovered and propagated the cultivar in Algeria . [ 4 ]