tangor
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{{Short description|Citrus fruit cross between mandarin and sweet orange}}
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{{Taxobox
|name = Tangor
|image = Photo ortanique.JPG
|image_caption = Ortanique
|regnum = Plantae
|unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
|unranked_classis = Eudicots
|unranked_ordo = Rosids
|ordo = Sapindales
|familia = Rutaceae
|genus = Citrus
|species = C. reticulata × sinensis
|binomial = Citrus reticulata × sinensis
}}
The tangor (C. reticulata × C. sinensis) is a citrus fruit hybrid of the mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata) and the sweet orange (Citrus sinensis).{{Cite web|title=Tangor. In: Fruits of Warm Climates|pages=145–146|year=1987|author=Julia F. Morton|url=https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/tangor.html|access-date=22 October 2020|publisher=NewCROP, New Crop Resource Online Program, Center for New Crops and Plant Products, Purdue University}} The name "tangor" is a formation from the "tang" of tangerine and the "or" of "orange." Also called the temple orange, its thick rind is easy to peel and its bright orange pulp is sour-sweet and full-flavoured.
Varieties
{{see also|Mandarin orange#Varieties}}
Tangors are purposely bred or accidental hybrids of the sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and the mandarin (Citrus reticulata), producing several varieties.
- 'Clementine' (Willowleaf × unknown sweet orange){{cite journal |last1=Shimizu |first1=Tokurou |last2=Kitajima |first2=Akira |last3=Nonaka |first3=Keisuke |last4=Yoshioka |first4=Terutaka |last5=Ohta |first5=Satoshi |last6=Goto |first6=Shingo |last7=Toyoda |first7=Atsushi |last8=Fujiyama |first8=Asao |last9=Mochizuki |first9=Takako |last10=Nagasaki |first10=Hideki |last11=Kaminuma |first11=Eli |last12=Nakamura |first12=Yasukazu |title=Hybrid Origins of Citrus Varieties Inferred from DNA Marker Analysis of Nuclear and Organelle Genomes |journal=PLOS ONE |date=30 November 2016 |volume=11 |issue=11 |pages=e0166969 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0166969 |pmid=27902727 |pmc=5130255 |bibcode=2016PLoSO..1166969S |doi-access=free }} (a commercially important cultivar)
- 'King' ("King of Siam"; formerly Citrus nobilis)
- 'Tsunonozomi' (Kiyomi x Encore)
- 'Murcott' ("honey Murcott"; "Murcott honey orange"; "red"; "big red")
- 'Ortanique' (originally found in Jamaica, the name comes from the words "orange", "tangerine", and "unique"). In 1939, David Daniel Phillips was recognised by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) as the creator of the ortanique.
- 'Temple' (Willowleaf × unknown sweet orange) (believed to be the same as the "magnet" variety of Japan)
- 'Umatilla' (misnomer "Umatilla tangelo")
- 'Pontianak' (originally found in Indonesia, named after a provincial capital)
- 'Setoka' (Japan, hybrid of Murcott and Kuchinotsu No.37)
- 'Gonggan' (China){{Cite journal |last1=Qin |first1=Yong-hua |last2=Ye |first2=Zi-xing |last3=Hu |first3=Gui-bing |last4=Chen |first4=Jie-zhong |last5=Xu |first5=Chao |last6=Li |first6=Gu-yu |last7=Lin |first7=Shun-quan |title='Huami Wuhe Gonggan'，A New Citrus Cultivar |url=https://www.ahs.ac.cn/EN/Y2014/V41/I6/1267 |journal=Acta Horticulturae Sinica|date=25 June 2014 |volume=41 |issue=6 |page=1267 }}
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Cultivation regions
Pests and diseases
The 'Ortanique' variety may be attacked by aphids (Aphis gossypii), rust mite (Phyllocoptruta oleivora) or various species of scale insects and moths. The fungus Sphaeropsis tumefaciens may cause knots in twigs.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030807090825/http://members.fortunecity.com/pjsauber/NewHybrids.htm Satsuma hybrids]
- [http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/temple.html Temple tangor] by Citrus Variety Collection
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