Here’s more info on different mandarin trees. We can’t wait for about another month or so for the fruit to ripen to a sugary sweet and we can already smell and taste all the cooking and cocktails in the future. It’s gone bonkers with fruit and we had get a heavy duty metal trellis to support the fruit infested branches. The peak season for clementines is early to mid-winter. This tree has EXPLODED with leaves, flowers and delicious fruit way beyond our imagination. Clementineswhich are also called Algerian tangerinesare thought to be a natural hybrid between a common mandarin orange and the bitter orange. Then all of a sudden, it must have hit a hidden cache of crack underneath the hard clay soil. Luckily, we never gave up on our Fremont tangerine tree. Family members even encouraged us to replace our “Charlie Brown tree” with a healthier & heartier specimen. Even after the first 2 years, it rarely grew past it’s original three, weak branches.
But believing that beauty lies skin deep (and because it cost under $20 bucks), we took this ugly, one gallon duckling home.
Back in 2002 it was was the only tree left at the nursery, forgotten and literally the last pick of the litter. No one would ever believe that this tangerine tree was all but a skinny, struggling, “stem like ” specimen. It’s the perfect juicing mandarin and it’s loaded with amazing flavor. This is the tangerine or mandarin that we prefer to drink.But the flesh is deep orange and wonderfully sweet. They have a tighter flesh than most other mandarins.
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