Does mandarin oranges have anything to do with mandarin chinese?
This is what I found: Mandarin is a group name for a class of oranges with thin, loose peel, which have been dubbed “kid-glove” oranges. These are treated as members of a distinct species, Citrus reticulata Blanco. The name “tangerine” could be applied as an alternate name to the whole group, but, in the trade, is usually confined to the types with red-orange skin. In the Philippines all mandarin oranges are called naranjita. Spanish-speaking people in the American tropics call them mandarina. **************************************… A mandarin by any other name (published Dec.2004) Author: Cindy Fake, Horticulture and Small Farms Advisor, Placer and Nevada Counties A mandarin by any other name would taste as sweet, but what is it? In Japanese, mandarin is mikan; in India; it is the suntara. In French and German, it is mandarine; in Italian, mandarino, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Bulgarian all use mandarina; but to many Americans, mandarin is an unfamiliar term. There is a lot of
