Fortune
Variety of Mandarin Orange · Citrus reticulata
Late, deep-orange commercial mandarin of Spain – juicy and long-storing.
Also known as: Fortune mandarin
9🇺🇸 USA 1964
Taste & characteristics
Taste
tartjuicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Clementine x Dancy Tangerine
- Breeder
- UC Riverside (Frost)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 120 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium, flattened, richly orange fruit; juicy-sweet with fine acidity, rind peels well, some seeds with cross-pollination.
Growth
Medium-vigour tree; susceptible to Alternaria brown spot.
Yield
A significant Spanish late variety for the fresh market.
Notes
Alternaria-prone; otherwise stores and ships well.
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