(Satsuma)

Easy to peel, sweet tender flesh and good cold tolerance, Satsuma mandarin tangerines are favored for eating out of hand and backyard orchards worldwide. These small to medium-sized evergreen fruit trees have been grown for more than 2000 years and are highly prized by cultures across the world. Originating from China, they were taken to Japan by monks who further developed the variety. The trees arrived in the United States in the 1870s via the wife of a United States minister to Japan who sent...

(Brown Select Satsuma, Satsuma)

Easy to peel, sweet tender flesh and good cold tolerance, Satsuma mandarin tangerines are favored for eating out of hand and backyard orchards worldwide. These small to medium-sized evergreen fruit trees have been grown for more than 2000 years and are highly prized by cultures across the world. Originating from China, they were taken to Japan by monks who further developed the variety. The trees arrived in the United States in the 1870s via the wife of a United States minister to Japan who sent...

(Miho Satsuma, Satsuma)

Easy to peel, sweet tender flesh and good cold tolerance, Satsuma mandarin tangerines are favored for eating out of hand and backyard orchards worldwide. These small to medium-sized evergreen fruit trees have been grown for more than 2000 years and are highly prized by cultures across the world. Originating from China, they were taken to Japan by monks who further developed the variety. The trees arrived in the United States in the 1870s via the wife of a United States minister to Japan who sent...

(Owari Satsuma, Satsuma)

Easy to peel, sweet tender flesh and good cold tolerance, Satsuma mandarin tangerines are favored for eating out of hand and backyard orchards worldwide. These small to medium-sized evergreen fruit trees have been grown for more than 2000 years and are highly prized by cultures across the world. Originating from China, they were taken to Japan by monks who further developed the variety. The trees arrived in the United States in the 1870s via the wife of a United States minister to Japan who sent...

(Meyer Lemon)

Discovered in a Shanghai dooryard in 1908 by plant explorer Frank Meyer, this lemon/orange hybrid is a small evergreen tree with thick glossy leaves and sweet orange-yellow fruit. Its fragrant white flowers and medium-sized "lemons" appear year-round, but most abundantly in winter and early spring. It is nearly thornless.

Meyer lemon prefers full sun, well drained soil, and hot summers, and is relatively cold hardy. Its compact habit, handsome foliage, and attractive, tasty fruit make it an ideal...

(Improved Meyer Lemon, Meyer Lemon)

Discovered in a Shanghai dooryard in 1908 by plant explorer Frank Meyer, this lemon/orange hybrid is a small evergreen tree with thick glossy leaves and sweet orange-yellow fruit. The cultivar 'Meyer Improved' was selected for its resistance to Tristeza virus which destroyed many Meyers lemons and cold hardiness. Its fragrant white flowers and medium-sized "lemons" appear year-round, but most abundantly in winter and early spring. It is nearly thornless.

Meyer lemon prefers full sun, well drained...

(Tangor, Temple Orange)

Tangor, a sweet orange-mandarin hybrid, are spreading, evergreen fruit trees to 12 feet. Attractive foliage and fruit. Fruit is seedy with a pebbled rind. Moderately cold sensitive. Varieties are numerous and diverse. Prefers full sun and a well-drained soil. Use as a specimen tree, hedge or screen.

(Grapefruit)

The common grapefruit takes its name not from its flesh, which is juicy and acidic, but from the way the fruit grows in hanging clusters. This evergreen tree is thought to be a hybrid of the Asian pummelo, which has much larger fruits, and the sweet orange, a native of China. It arrived in the United States around 1853 from the Caribbean.

Grapefruit trees are large, evergreen and sometimes have short, soft thorns on their twigs. The fragrant, thick, glossy leaves are broadly oval, dotted with...

(Bloomsweet Grapefruit, Grapefruit)

Large, pendent clusters of sunny, yellow fruit, reminiscent of grapes, give grapefruit its common name. It is a natural hybrid of the Asian pummelo (Citrus maxima) and sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) that was first described as the Barbados “Forbidden Fruit” by Griffith Hughes in 1750. The tree was later found on several islands of the West Indies, including Jamaica, and arrived in the United States around 1853 thanks to Odette Philippe.

Grapefruit trees are large, evergreen...

(Duncan Grapefruit, Grapefruit)

Large, pendent clusters of sunny, yellow fruit, reminiscent of grapes, give grapefruit its common name. It is a natural hybrid of the Asian pummelo (Citrus maxima) and sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) that was first described as the Barbados “Forbidden Fruit” by Griffith Hughes in 1750. The tree was later found on several islands of the West Indies, including Jamaica, and arrived in the United States around 1853 thanks to Odette Philippe.

Grapefruit trees are large, evergreen...