![]() ![]() ![]() Today it is used only by Americans and has no botanical significance.Ĭlementines, on the other hand, are a variety of common mandarins. The term “tangerine” appears to have been a marketing ploy for reddish-orange varieties of mandarins. Let’s start out with the botany: what Americans call tangerines are actually mandarins - they are called mandarins everywhere else around the globe. If you have one of these fruit trees in your home orchard, you’ll definitely want to understand the clementine growing season and when and how to harvest these sweet citrus fruit. All loose-skinned, cold-hardy citrus fruit are mandarins ( Citrus reticulata). You may call it a clementine, but that citrus fruit – like many of its brethren regardless of marketing name – is in fact a mandarin. ![]()
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