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MANDARINS
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| AFOURER |
Fruit
usually flattened shape with skin, smooth, orange rind that is
easy to peel. Orange coloured flesh, juicy with a rich and sweet
flavour. Fruits Nov-March |
| AOSHIMA |
Early
fruiting and easy peeling. High internal quality. Small growing.
May/July.
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| BUDDHAS
HAND |
Highly prized in China
and Japan for its perfumed aroma. Related to the lemon, this ancient
fruit separates at the bottom into gnarled, finger - like segments.
The fruit has yellow rind and contains no flesh or seeds. A small
tree with large leathery leaves. |
| BURGESS
SCARLET |
Rich-flavoured
variety with highly coloured, aromatic, medium-sized fruit. Grow
vigorously, ripens in September to October.
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| CLEMENTINE
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Extremely
popular and the best all round variety. Compact growth and very
heavy crops of medium-sized, highly coloured fruit of excellent
flavour. Ripens July, but fruit will hang on for months.
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| CORSICA
No.2
|
Very
similar to Clementine. Fruit tends to be larger with less pips.
Fruits June/July.
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| ENCORE |
A
vigorous tree bearing fruit from November to February. Fruit
medium to large in size, thin skin, juicy and rather seedless.
Very sweet.
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| HANSEN
LATE
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Also
called Allendale. Quite a vigorous grower and bears reasonably
well in Spring.
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| KARA
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Tree
is medium-sized and fairly open and drooping in habit. The fruit
medium to large, excellent flavour. Ripens from October to
December.
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| KAWANO
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Medium-sized
tree. Heavy cropping, free peeling and seedless. Ripens May to
July.
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| KIYOMI |
Produces
good crops of large bright ornage fruit with a pebbly-textured
skin. Rich and spicy in flavour, good eaten fresh or for juice,
easy to peel. Fruits July-August.
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| MIHO
|
Early
fruiting and easy peeling. High sugar levels in fruit. Very
popular export variety.
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| MIYAGAWA
WASE |
A
Satsuma strain variety fruiting very easily. Easy peeling with no
pips. Requires a warm situation. Fruits very early. Fruit round in
shape.
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| MURCOTT |
Very
similar to encore but ripens earlier. Vigorous grower.
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| OKITSU
WASE
|
Very
similar to Miyagawa buy may fruit earlier or later depending on
location. More vigorous growing. Seedless, easy peel.
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| ORTANIQUE
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Producing
good crops of highly coloured fruit. Rich and sweet. Ripens
October to November.
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| RICHARDS
SPECIAL |
Becoming
a popular large sweet Mandarin. Ripens spring. Highly ornamental.
Bright green foliage.
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| SATSUMA |
A
very popular, sweet, seedless, easy to peel variety, ripening in
June to July. Best picked as the fruit becomes puffy if left on
tree.
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| SILVER
HILL
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The
earliest mandarin to ripen. Produces large crops of medium to
large, easily peeled fruit. Fruit is sweet and juicy and segments
separate easily. Commences to ripen June.
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| THORNY
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One
of the best flavoured of all mandarins. Ripens September, great
colour. Fruit stays juicy if left on tree. Tends to be biennial
cropping.
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