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« on: March 25, 2017, 10:39:26 PM »
The name Tangerine has evolved from the citrus fruit that was exported through Tangiers. It was often seeded. Juanita is know as a tangerine in USA I believe and it ,famously to some, grew from a seed of a tangerine purchased from a grocery store. I've heard some say things like a manderin can be a tangerine but all tangerines are not mandarins. I think others substitute the name satsuma where they wish. I have to say when you say citrus reticulata you've said it all, seedless or not !
And of course seedless does not mean completely seedless. It can be very confusing. All I want to know is what is the common name and how does it taste. And then of course the same citrus retculata does not taste the same depending on where it was grown and what root stock it was grown on. Quality and taste vary a lot !
And not to sound like a smart ___, I've tasted fruit off my own tree from different limbs that both tasted very good but very different. And that was on the same side of the tree the same day. Different sides can taste different too. The best I've ever had was fresh off someone else's tree and a year or two later that tree had very ordinary to not very good fruit.
Tom