Pixie
Variety of Mandarin Orange · Citrus reticulata
Very late, seedless connoisseur mandarin with puffy rind and mild sweetness.
Also known as: Pixie mandarin
9🇺🇸 USA 1965
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildjuicysweet
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling von King x Dancy (offen abgeblüht)
- Breeder
- UC Riverside (H. B. Frost)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 90 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Small to medium fruit with puffy, easily peeled rind; mild-sweet, seedless, very late ripening.
Growth
Upright tree; strongly alternate bearing.
Yield
Niche premium variety, notably the Ojai Valley, California.
Notes
Ripens late in spring; ideal as a season-ending mandarin.
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