Who Else Loves Valencia Oranges?
Temple oranges, also known as tangor, are hybrid citrus fruits. They’re hybrids of the mandarin orange and the sweet orange. The mandarin orange is a tangerine – this is how tangor came into play. The name tangor is a combo of tangerine and orange. There are all sorts of varieties of the temple oranges, there’s • King, or King of Siam • Murcott, or Honey Murcott, Murcott Honey Orange, Red, Big Red • Ortanique, which are found in Jamaica – comes from orange, tangerine and unique Umatilla or Umatilla Tangelo Then there are the Temple oranges from Japan, including: • Iyokan, also known as sweet oranges • Miyauchi Iyo, has an early ripening • Othani Iyo, has a later ripening • Kiyomi, Trovita navel orange • Setom, Trovita navel orange Temple oranges are from the class of Eudicots and the Rutaceae family. Temple oranges are thought to be identical to the Magnet orange in Japan. The seed of the temple orange was believed to be discovered by a fruit buyer by the name of Boyce. He went to Jama
