Author Topic: The biggest mandarins I've ever seen--and some of the best tasting, need ID  (Read 2482 times)

starling1

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Picked these up from the fruit market today. Very puffy, dimpled skin, absolutely gigantic--considerably bigger than navel oranges. Unlabelled. Very nice balance of sweetness and acidity. Out of 3 I've eaten so far, one was woody--the rest were very good, quite juicy like tangellos but with firmer flesh. Definitely not a tangello variety.










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lots of seeds? easy peel?
« Last Edit: June 16, 2014, 04:04:43 AM by Riverland »

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Probably "Beauty", aka Beauty of Glen Retreat.  Very old variety thought to be a Dancy seedling. It produced poor fruit outside of QLD, so I guess likes humidity that we don't get here.

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I can't tell what it is. There is a giant form of Ellendale that gets grapefruit size and the variety in the picture is not quite in the same range but it sure looks better with the blazing colour.

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I saw a giant mandarin type in store a few days ago that are whoppers and different from those starling posted. They flattened, grown on the Atherton Tableland quite green and somewhere between 500g and 1kg each (over 1 to 2lbs) and the cut display one looked great. It was deep orange with a tight skin and only a couple of seeds.

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Here in Mexico they call this Mandarin "Reina"-Queen