Cara Cara
Variety of Sweet orange · Citrus sinensis
Navel orange with salmon-red, berry-scented flesh under an orange rind.
Also known as: Cara Cara Navel, Red Navel, Rotfleischige Navel
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetfloralaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Rotfleischige Mutation der Washington Navel
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 220 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Outwardly a normal navel, inside pink to salmon-red from lycopene; sweet with notes of cherry and red berries, seedless.
Growth
As Washington Navel; medium-vigour tree.
Yield
Premium table orange with strong shelf recognition in retail.
Notes
Discovered in 1976 at Hacienda Cara Cara in Venezuela.
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