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Tangelo

Plants Tanacetum vulgareTangerine

( Tangelo Phlox )
Deciduous or semi-evergreen perennial that spreads by runners. Upright or trailing shoots, to 8 inches long, are sparsely covered with small, downy, linear, gray-green leaves.

 


TANGELO
Citrus reticulata x Citrus maxima
General Notes
Needs good drainage. 'Minneola' most popular variety. Citrus grafted to sour organge root stock is resistant to Texas Root Rot Has Fragrant Flower.

Citrus x tangelo
Family: Rutaceae
Minneola tangelo
The Minneola tangelo is a citrus fruit hybrid of Grapefruit and Mandarin.
The fruit is extremely juicy with a slight tartness.

Holly Hill Tangelo Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Holly Hill Tangelo'
Holly Hock [English]: Alcea rosea
Holly Lake Doer Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Holly Lake Doer'
Holly Lomatia [English]: Lomatia ilicifolia ...

CITRUS RETICULATA X CITRUS MAXIMA - Tangelo
CITRUS RETICULATA X CITRUS SINENSIS - Tangor
CLAUSENA LANSIUM - Wampi, Wampee
COCCOLOBA UVIFERA - Sea Grape
COCCOLOBA SPECIES - Big Leaf Sea Grape
COCOS NUCIFERA - Coconut Palm ...

Included are the tangerine, citrange, tangelo, orange, pomelo, grapefruit, lemon, lime, citron, and kumquat. Almost all the species bearing edible fruits are small trees native to SE Asia, Indonesia, or Malaysia.

Citrus tangelo (Tangelo)
Clausena lansium (Wampee, Wampi)
Coleonema pulchellum (Pink Breath of Heaven, Confetti Bush)
Correa backhousiana
Correa pulchella
Dictamnus albus (Dittany, Gas Plant)
Fortunella crassifolia (Meiwa Kumquat) ...

The tangelo (C. X tangelo) is a hybrid between the grapefruit and the mandarin orange. The very cold-hardy Rangpur lime (C. X limonia) is a cross between the mandarin orange and the lime.

These days, adventurous gardeners can find an amazing array of unusual citrus: tangelos (Mandarin-pummelo or Mandarin-grapefruit hybrids), tangors (Mandarin-orange hybrids), limequats (lime-kumquat hybrids), ...

a full-page "Lifestyle" story by Laurence Trott in The Royal Gazette of December 14, 2001.
Pineapple guava
Plantains
Sapodilla
Strawberries (big ones, grown commercially and usually harvested in March)
Surinam cherry. Highly invasive.
Tangelos ...

See also: Orange, Citrus, Mandarin, Grape, Lemon

Plants Tanacetum vulgareTangerine

 
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