Dancy
Variety of Mandarin Orange · Citrus reticulata
The classic American Christmas tangerine with deep-red rind and spicy aroma.
Also known as: Dancy Tangerine, Christmas Tangerine, Zipper-skin
9🇺🇸 USA 1867
Taste & characteristics
Taste
tartjuicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling wahrscheinlich von Moragne Tangerine
- Breeder
- Col. G. L. Dancy (Florida)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 110 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium, flattened fruit with deep-red, very loose 'zipper-skin' rind; spicy-aromatic, seedy.
Growth
Vigorous, upright, productive tree.
Yield
Historic US commercial tangerine, now mostly a dooryard variety.
Notes
Many seeds with cross-pollination; tends to alternate bearing.
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