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A ripe Murcott fruit. 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.
Murcott, a mandarin × sweet orange hybrid, [9] [18] one parent being the King. [ 12 ] Tango is a proprietary seedless mid-late season irradiated selection of Murcott developed by the University of California Citrus Breeding Program.
A mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), often simply called mandarin, is a small, rounded citrus tree fruit. Treated as a distinct species of orange , it is usually eaten plain or in fruit salads. The mandarin is small and oblate, unlike the roughly spherical sweet orange (which is a mandarin- pomelo hybrid ).
Some say the Mandarin pronunciation of the fruit (ju) sounds like the word for “good luck” (ji). Others point to its Cantonese pronunciation ( gam ), which is the same as the word “gold.”
Tangor Ortanique Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Rutaceae Genus: Citrus Species: C. reticulata × sinensis Binomial name Citrus reticulata × sinensis The tangor (C. reticulata × C. sinensis) is a citrus fruit hybrid of the mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata) and the sweet orange (Citrus ...
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The three ancestral species in the genus Citrus associated with modern Citrus cultivars are the mandarin orange, pomelo, and citron. Almost all of the common commercially important citrus fruits (sweet oranges, lemons , grapefruit, limes, and so on) are hybrids between these three species, their main progenies, and other wild Citrus species ...