what is the difference between a mandarin and a tangerine?

Answer 1

YOU JUDGE YOURSELF


1) The Mandarin orange or mandarin is a small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata) with fruit resembling the orange.

The fruit is oblate, rather than spherical, and roughly resembles a pumpkin in shape. Mandarin oranges are usually eaten plain or in fruit salads. Specifically reddish orange mandarin cultivars can be marketed as a tangerine, but this is not a botanical classification.

The tree is more tolerant to drought than the fruit. The mandarin is tender and is damaged easily by cold. It can be grown in tropical and subtropical areas.

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2) The Tangerine (Citrus reticulata) is an orange or red colored citrus fruit, a type of mandarin orange.

They are smaller than most oranges, and the skin of some varieties peels off more easily. The flavor is often more sour and more sweet than that of an orange.

Good quality tangerines will be firm to slightly hard, heavy for their size and pebbly-skinned with no deep grooves, also orange in color. Peak tangerine season is short, lasting from November to January in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Honey tangerine, which was originally called a murcott, is very sweet as its name suggests. Other popular kinds include the Sunburst and Fairchild tangerines.

One of the oldest varieties is the Dancy tangerine, once the most popular type, but no longer widely grown [1]. The Dancy was known as the zipper-skin tangerine and as the kid-glove orange for its loose, pliable peel. Its peak season is December, so children often received one in their Christmas stockings.

Tangerine flavor is used in bottled juice or gatorade soft drinks, and the fresh fruit can be used in salads, desserts and main dishes. It is, however, most commonly eaten out of hand. Tangerines are a good source of vitamin C, folate and beta-carotene. They also contain some potassium, magnesium and vitamins B1, B2 & B3.

The number of seeds in each segment (carpel) varies greatly (up to 59).

Historically the name tangerine comes from Tangier, Morocco, the port from which the first tangerines were shipped to Europe. The adjective tangerine, from Tangier or Tanger, was already an English word (first recorded in 1710).

A popular alternative to tangerines are clementines, which are also a variant of the mandarin orange.

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Answer 2

All those orange-yet-no longer-an-orange end result are sorts of mandarin oranges. Tangerine is a wide-spread time period deriving from Tangiers, the Tunisian port the position chinese mandarins were first imported. Satsumas are a classification of mandarin traced to fifteenth century Japan - loose skinned, sweet and extra regularly than not seedless. Clementines are grown around the Mediterranean - small, smooth, sweet yet sharp. There also Dancy, Tangelo, Ponkan... to call some all pass-pollinated, there are thousands of kinds. Now you comprehend.

Answer 3

I believe that mandarins and tangerines are the same species, Citrus reticulata, just different varieties (much like different varieties of wines). From the way back of my plant taxonomy class, I remember the professor saying that there were three original citrus fruits, tangerine/mandarin, pomelo and lime and that everything else was a hybrid of those three. Hopefully someone else can corroborate my story :).

Answer 4

A mandarin is larger and has seeds . A tangerine is smaller and is seedless

Answer 5

Don't you bother your pretty little head. Daddy knows.

Answer 6

Don't forget "Clementines" too.