Sanguinello

Variety of Sweet orange · Citrus sinensis

Late, long-keeping blood orange with red-speckled flesh and few seeds.

Also known as: Sanguinello Moscato, Sanguinelli

🇪🇸 Spain 1929

Taste & characteristics

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Parentage: Sizilianische Blutorange, spanischen Ursprungs (1929 in Spanien selektiert)
Pollination: self-fertile
Fruit weight: 150 g

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Roundish-oval, thin-skinned, low-seeded; orange flesh with red veins and dots, sweet and aromatic.

Productive tree; fruit holds long on the tree.

Latest of the three great Sicilian blood oranges; extends the blood-orange season.

Forms the Sicilian blood-orange trio together with Tarocco and Moro.

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