Pera orange
Brazil's dominant juice orange, multiple-blooming and high-yielding; the engine of the world's largest orange-juice industry.
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 (multiple flushes).
moderate-vigorous
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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