Citrus, Mandarin Orange, Satsuma, Tangerine 'Clementine'

I picked a fresh fruit from my potted Clementine Orange Tree today and is was sweet and delicious!

Small fruit, easy peel, very sweet. Mine have seeds but I don't mind.

The comment below states that clementines are easily hybridized and CA growers threatened to sue beekeepers. While both statements may be...Read More true, CA growers did not threaten to sue beekeepers because the trees are easily hybridized, it is because, when they are polinated by bees they are no longer "seedless" and often have many seeds. They are less marketable with seeds, thus hurting their livihood.

Also, my personal opinion is that clementines are the most inferior of the commonly marketed mandarines. They are very sweet with little flavor. Satsuma and Dancy have a better tart/sweet combination.

This is actually Citrus reticulata x Citrus auratium.

It is easily hybridized and in 2006 one of the larger California gro...Read Morewers threatened to sue beekeepers for allowing their bees to trespass into Clementine crop areas.

Primarily grown in Spain and Northern Africa, Clementines gained popularity in the United States after the 1997 Florida freeze.

Father Clement Rodier, a missionary priest in Algeria, is said to have discovered and named them in 1902. Some track the origin centuries before to the Chinese variety called the Canton Mandarin.