Orri Mandarin - Wow, Dang Wow!

[sheaper]

I’ve wanted a Noble tree and their patented Starburst pomelo for years but they are Fort Knox on releasing anything.  I’ve never tried Orri but a good Gold Nugget is hard to
Beat.

[sc4001992]

I ate both Orri and have the Gold Nugett tree that gets many fruits. I like Gold Nugget better. Orri is still very good, but to me not any better than most good tasting mandarins and I have most of them fruiting. On a good day, either Gold Nugget or Yosemite Gold is hard to beat, Orri is not as good.

[a_Vivaldi]

For you guys in the South, when does Gold Nugget ripen for you? UCR lists it as very late for a mandarin, even into June of the following year.

[jbirdfunk]

Here in San Diego my gold nugget is ready starting January and we usually have picked all by March, but I’ve let a few last until May and they are still good.

Gold nugget is a tree I’ve planted another one of because they are so dang good and people ask for them.

[Coconut Cream]

My local farmer's market, a great place that always has all kinds of exotic fruits, had a billboard up advertising the Orri mandarin. I bought a few of them with very high expectations, but they tasted very similar to other mandarins I've had, maybe even a bit more bland. A little fibrous, a little sweet, a little tart, not much flavor. The fruit looked like the first photo shown in this thread.