Citrus × deliciosa

{{Short description|Citrus fruit and plant}}

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Citrus × deliciosa}}

{{Infobox cultivar

| name =Citrus × deliciosa

| image = Mandariner Citrus deliciosa.jpg

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| hybrid = Parents unknown; mandarin orange with some pomelo ancestry

| cultivar = "Mediterranean"?{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

|marketing_names= Willowleaf, Ba Ahmed (Morocco), Blida, Boufarik and Bougie (Algeria), Bodrum (Turkey), Paterno and Palermo (Italy), Nice and Provence (France), Valencia (Spain), Setubalense (Portugal); commune (French), comuna (Spanish), gallego (Portuguese), koina (Greek), yerli (Turkish), and beladi (various spellings, Arabic); Effendi or Yousef Effendi (Egypt and the Near East), Emperor, Avana or Speciale (Italy), Thorny (Australia), Mexerica or Bergamota (Brazil), Montegrina, Natal, and Chino or Amarillo (Mexico).

| origin = Italy

}}

Citrus × deliciosa (thorny (Australia), amarillo, beladi, Willowleaf Mandarin, Mediterranean Mandarin{{Cite web|url=http://citruspages.free.fr/mandarins.html#deliciosa|title=Mandarins / Citrus Pages}}) is a citrus hybrid mandarin orange with just under 6 % pomelo ancestry.{{cite journal|title=Genomics of the origin and evolution of Citrus | last1=Wu | first1=Guohong Albert | last2=Terol | first2=Javier | last3=Ibanez | first3=Victoria | last4=López-García | first4=Antonio | last5=Pérez-Román | first5=Estela | last6=Borredá | first6=Carles | last7=Domingo | first7=Concha | last8=Tadeo | first8=Francisco R | last9=Carbonell-Caballero | first9=Jose | last10=Alonso | first10=Roberto | last11=Curk | first11=Franck | last12=Du | first12=Dongliang | last13=Ollitrault | first13=Patrick | last14=Roose | first14=Mikeal L. Roose | last15=Dopazo | first15=Joaquin | last16=Gmitter Jr | first16=Frederick G. | last17=Rokhsar | first17=Daniel | last18=Talon | first18=Manuel | journal=Nature | year = 2018 | volume=554 | issue=7692 | pages=311–316 | doi=10.1038/nature25447| pmid=29414943 | bibcode=2018Natur.554..311W | doi-access=free | hdl=20.500.11939/5741 | hdl-access=free }} and Supplement It is related to the ponkan.{{cite journal | doi=10.1038/nbt.2906 | volume=32 |issue=7 | title=Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication | journal=Nature Biotechnology | pages=656–662 | pmid=24908277 | pmc=4113729 | year=2014 |vauthors=Wu GA, etal}}{{cite journal | doi=10.1007/s00122-006-0255-9 | volume=112 | issue=8 | title=Assessing genetic diversity and population structure in a citrus germplasm collection utilizing simple sequence repeat markers (SSRs) | journal=Theoretical and Applied Genetics | pages=1519–1531 | pmid=16699791 | vauthors=Barkley NA, Roose ML, Krueger RR, Federici CT | year=2006 | s2cid=7667126 | url=https://naldc-legacy.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=11065&content=PDF | access-date=2018-12-29 | archive-date=2021-03-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309064039/https://naldc-legacy.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=11065&content=PDF | url-status=dead }}

It has been widely grown around the Mediterranean since it appeared in Italy (between 1810 and 1818), but was not found in the orient until it was exported there. It is one of the most commercially important citrus. Its sweet fruit is eaten, its rind oil is used to flavour food and drinks, and petitgrain oil is extracted from the pruned leaves. Its flowers (particularly petals) are also rich in essential oils.{{Cite book|chapter=Bioactive Compounds of Citrus as Health Promoters|pages=29–97|language=en|doi=10.2174/9781681082394116010005|title=Natural Bioactive Compounds from Fruits and Vegetables as Health Promoters Part I|year=2016|isbn=9781681082394|last1=Silva|first1=Luis Rodrigues da|last2=Silva|first2=Branca}}