Cara Cara navel orange
A pink-fleshed navel sport with a sweet, berry-like, low-acid flavor that commands a fresh-market premium. Lycopene-pigmented, not blood-orange anthocyanin.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- 26°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Moderate-Vigorous
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Canopy killed at about 26°F.
Needs high heat to colour and sweeten.
Mid-season fruit (Dec-Feb).
moderate-vigorous
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.5.
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Climate-adapted alternatives
more resilient picksPineapple orange
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Salustiana orange
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Pera orange
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Westin orange
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Seville sour orange
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Washington navel orange
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
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