Keraji mandarin (hardy)
A small, sweet, very cold-hardy mandarin-type (to about 12F) sold for cold-region dooryard fruit; eaten fresh, with seeds.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- 12°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Variable (Papeda-Derived = Vigorous + Thorny)
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Canopy killed at about 12°F.
Needs low heat to colour and sweeten.
Mid-season fruit (autumn-winter).
variable (papeda-derived = vigorous + thorny)
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.5.
These are intrinsic to the citrus. On a real property, Folia scores each against your site; here they're shown on their own.
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