The growth in the export market for this particular fruit has increased but reached a plateau about 2015. In 2010, about 150,000 tonnes were exported from Spain to the USA. The fruit is a clean, bright orange and the Spanish fruit in particular has a stronger and deeper flavour than clementines grown in the USA. It has a sweet juicy pulp of similar consistency to a tangerine but with greater depth of flavour and no seeds which means it is easier to chew and digest. One of the related tangerines is the Huangyanbendizao tangerine. It is not the same fruit however as the Common Mandarin. It is a member of the mandarin family and is commonly listed as a mandarin when canned. It has the species name Citrus reticulata Blanco and is a cultivar. The fruit found its way to the USA in 1909. The fruit was found in a garden in Algeria in the early twentieth century. It is probably the result of an accidental cross between the Havana mandarin and a bitter or sour orange. The fruit is also known as the Algerian Tangerine.
Here’s more info on different mandarin trees.The clementine is one of several citrus species of the mandarin variety. We can’t wait for about another month or so for the fruit to ripen to a sugary sweet and we can already smell and taste all the cooking and cocktails in the future. It’s gone bonkers with fruit and we had get a heavy duty metal trellis to support the fruit infested branches. This tree has EXPLODED with leaves, flowers and delicious fruit way beyond our imagination. Then all of a sudden, it must have hit a hidden cache of crack underneath the hard clay soil.
Luckily, we never gave up on our Fremont tangerine tree. Family members even encouraged us to replace our “Charlie Brown tree” with a healthier & heartier specimen. Even after the first 2 years, it rarely grew past it’s original three, weak branches. But believing that beauty lies skin deep (and because it cost under $20 bucks), we took this ugly, one gallon duckling home. Back in 2002 it was was the only tree left at the nursery, forgotten and literally the last pick of the litter. No one would ever believe that this tangerine tree was all but a skinny, struggling, “stem like ” specimen. It’s the perfect juicing mandarin and it’s loaded with amazing flavor. This is the tangerine or mandarin that we prefer to drink.But the flesh is deep orange and wonderfully sweet. They have a tighter flesh than most other mandarins.
They have seeds are are easy to peel with a medium thick rind.
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