Catalog Description
Easily peeled, tasty red-orange fruit in winter from this dwarf evergreen tree. As a landscape specimen it offers year round glossy foliage and fragrant flowers. Produces best with heat and humidity. Full sun. Vigorous grower to 12 feet tall and wide. Cutting grown and grafted on Carrizo Citrange rootstock. |
Design Ideas
This shrubby, small tree is ideal near a sunny path where the fragrant flowers can be enjoyed along with the tasty winter fruit.
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Companion Plants
Graduate the height of this planting with Zuni Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica x fauriei `Zuni`), which is slightly lower and will create interest with its bronzy new growth to orange-red fall color.
Add the red-flowering Dwarf Pomegranate (Punica granatum `Nana`) and Blue Point Juniper (Juniperus chinensis `Blue Point`), with its pyramidal form, to complement the evergreen.
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Average Landscape Size
Vigorous grower to 12 ft. tall and wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Easily peeled, tasty red-orange fruit in winter from this dwarf evergreen tree. As a landscape specimen it offers year round glossy foliage and fragrant flowers. Produces best with heat and humidity. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Fast Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Round |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 10 (>150 to 180 days) |
| Low: | 8 (>90 to 120 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 10 (30 to 40 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 9 (20 to 30 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Cup shaped
| Flower Color |
| White |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Spring. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Cutting grown and grafted on Carrizo Citrange rootstock |
| Best time to Prune |
| Winter |
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Attributes
Attractive Fruit
Attracts Wildlife
Dwarf Habit
Edible Fruit
Espaliers
Flavor for Cooking
Fragrant
Fruit-Bearing
Mediterranean Garden
Patio Container Plant
Spring Flowering
Tropical
Year-round Interest |
Foliage
Glossy
| Foliage Shape | Ovate |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | Green |
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Plant Lore
Citrus came to America via Spain to Mexico then north to the California missions where the west coast industry was born. |
Plant History
The name tangerine is believed to mean "of or from Tangiers", and this cultivar is also known as tangerine. It is thought to have been a thornless sport of another mandarin cultivar of unknown origin. From Morocco it was introduced into Florida where it became the leading commercial variety for the winter holiday market. Mandarin oranges originate in Southeast Asia and were introduced to the Middle Ages by early Arab traders. |
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