Here’s more info on different mandarin trees. We can’t wait for about another month or so for the fruit to ripen to a sugary sweet and we can already smell and taste all the cooking and cocktails in the future.

It’s gone bonkers with fruit and we had get a heavy duty metal trellis to support the fruit infested branches. This tree has EXPLODED with leaves, flowers and delicious fruit way beyond our imagination. Then all of a sudden, it must have hit a hidden cache of crack underneath the hard clay soil. Luckily, we never gave up on our Fremont tangerine tree. Family members even encouraged us to replace our “Charlie Brown tree” with a healthier & heartier specimen. Each fruit has 12 segments and is practically seedless, having less than ten seeds per fruit.

Unlike many orange trees, clementine trees are almost free of thorns.

Even after the first 2 years, it rarely grew past it’s original three, weak branches. Arriving in Florida in 1909, the original variety of Clementine ( Algerian tangerine) made its way to California by 1914. But believing that beauty lies skin deep (and because it cost under $20 bucks), we took this ugly, one gallon duckling home. Back in 2002 it was was the only tree left at the nursery, forgotten and literally the last pick of the litter. No one would ever believe that this tangerine tree was all but a skinny, struggling, “stem like ” specimen. It’s the perfect juicing mandarin and it’s loaded with amazing flavor. This is the tangerine or mandarin that we prefer to drink.But the flesh is deep orange and wonderfully sweet. They have a tighter flesh than most other mandarins. They have seeds are are easy to peel with a medium thick rind.

Algerian tangerine clementine