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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.
Minneola may refer to: a variety of tangelo; Places in the United States. Minneola, former name of Alleene, Arkansas; Minneola, Florida;
Minneola is a city in Lake County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Minneola tangelo is named after the city. The population was 13,843 at the 2020 census.
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]
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The mandelo was developed in the 1950s at the UC Citrus Experiment Station, but then escaped into public orchards. [1] [3] It is a yellow-orange fleshed tri-specific citrus hybrid between a 'Frua' hybrid mandarin ('Dancy' mandarin × 'King tangor') [4] and a Siamese Sweet pomelo. [3]
The grapefruit originated in the 18th century in Barbados, it says elsewhere. If the Tangelo is a lot older in Southeast Asia, then the grapefruit does not belong there. It seems, however, that the '3,500 years ago' do not belong there. This credible source lists the grapfruit as hybrid source, which makes the tangelo less than 200 years old.
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