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A mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), often simply called mandarin, is a small, rounded citrus tree fruit. Treated as a distinct species of orange, it is usually eaten plain or in fruit salads. The mandarin is small and oblate, unlike the roughly spherical sweet orange (which is a mandarin- pomelo hybrid).
Now, using powerful genetic tools, researchers on Okinawa, as well as Spain and the United States, sequenced the genomes of sixty-nine traditional and wild mandarins from the Ryukyus and southern Japan and compared them with previously sequenced mainland mandarins and other citrus fruits.
2 Αυγ 2021 · Orange production in the United States plummeted by 72% between 2008 and 2018. Gmitter’s research group believes that Citrus ryukyuensis could contain the secret for creating citruses that are...
The orange, also called sweet orange to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae. Botanically, this is the hybrid Citrus × sinensis , between the pomelo ( Citrus maxima ) and the mandarin orange ( Citrus reticulata ).
7 Φεβ 2023 · The mandarin orange cultivar (Citrus reticulata) was the last major citrus to travel westward. The first specimen was brought from China to England in 1805, then to Italy, becoming well...
In the U.S., tangerine originally referred to deeply colored mandarins that were originally imported to Florida from the Moroccan port Tangier, which lent the fruit its name. The name “mandarin” is taken from the title of counselors in the Chinese imperial courts who wore bright orange robes and headpieces with buttons that resemble the fruit.
Mandarin oranges gained their name from the bright orange robes worn by the mandarins, public officials of the ancient Chinese court. When exporting began, Mandarin oranges were named after their port of origin. Tangerines were the first to be exported to North America and were named after the city of Tangiers in Morocco.
