Okitsu
Variety of Mandarin Orange · Citrus reticulata
Very early, cold-hardy satsuma – seedless and ready before the clementines.
Also known as: Okitsu Wase, Okitsu Satsuma
9🇯🇵 Japan 1963
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildjuicysweet
Profile
- Parentage
- Nucellar-Sämling von Miyagawa Wase Satsuma
- Breeder
- Okitsu Citrus Research Station
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 95 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium, flattened fruit with easily detached rind; seedless, juicy and mild-sweet, ripening very early.
Growth
Medium, cold-hardy tree, productive and early-bearing.
Yield
High early yields; widespread in Spain, Japan and Turkey.
Notes
Wase (early satsuma) type, harvestable from early autumn.
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