Posts Tagged: citrus

Sharing the 'California dream'

We live in an orchard. It’s pretty much like the California dream that Sunkist and the railroads promised to people back East and to dust bowl refugees many years ago – an orange tree in your own backyard! For many of us in the Sacramento region, the...

Harvesting team.

Young picker.

New citrus hybrid 'Valentine' is all heart

A new UC Riverside citrus hybrid - combining the best traits of pummelo, mandarin and blood orange - could eventually become an ideal and healthful Valentine's Day present. Valentine pummelo hybrid merges the large size and low acidity of Siamese Sweet...

Valentine on the tree.

Tango mandarins are soon to appear in a produce aisle near you

The first commercial crop of an exceptional new mandarin variety created by UC Riverside scientists will be harvested this month. The fruit, called Tango, is the result of a mutation induced by irradiating budwood of W. Murcott mandarin. The process...

W. Murcott mandarin (left) and Tango (right).

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